Vulnerability CVE-2017-11567
Published: 2017-09-07

Description:
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Mongoose Web Server before 6.9 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of users for requests that modify Mongoose.conf via a request to __mg_admin?save. NOTE: this issue can be leveraged to execute arbitrary code remotely.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
High
Mongoose Web Server 6.5 Cross-Site Request Forgery / Remote Code Execution
hyp3rlinx
05.09.2017

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
Cesanta -> Mongoose embedded web server library 

 References:
http://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org/advisories/MONGOOSE-WEB-SERVER-v6.5-CSRF-COMMAND-EXECUTION.txt
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Sep/3
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42614/
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