Description
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in adduser.do in Symantec LiveUpdate Administrator (LUA) before 2.3 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that create new administrative accounts, and possibly have unspecified other impact, via the userRole parameter.
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.
Exploit-DB 1
- Symantec LiveUpdate Administrator Management GUI - HTML Injection EDB-17026 · webapps · Mar 23, 2011
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- 43820 third-party-advisory
- symantec-lua-gui-csrf(66213) vdb-entry
- 71261 vdb-entry
- http://sotiriu.de/adv/NSOADV-2011-001.txt
- http://www.symantec.com/security_response/securityupdates/detail.jsp?fid=security_advisory&pvid=security_advisory&year=2011&suid=20110321_00
- 17026 exploit
- 8160 third-party-advisory
- ADV-2011-0727 vdb-entry
- 1025242 vdb-entry
- 20110322 NSOADV-2011-001: Symantec LiveUpdate Administrator CSRF vulnerability mailing-list