Vulnerability CVE-2008-6498
Published: 2009-03-19   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in security/xamppsecurity.php in XAMPP 1.6.8 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of users for requests that change a certain .htaccess password via the xampppasswd parameter.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
XAMPP 1.6.8 (XSRF) Change Administrative Password Exploit
Michael Brooks
21.03.2009

Type:

CWE-352

 (Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF))

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.8/10
6.4/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Apachefriends -> Xampp 

 References:
http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/7384
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47201
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