Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in EMC RSA Web Threat Detection before 5.1 allows remote attackers to hijack the authenticat

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

• rsa web threat detectionup to 5.0 inclusive

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2018-1252RSA Web Threat Detection SQL Injection Vulnerability
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• CVE-2014-4627SQL injection vulnerability in EMC RSA Web Threat Detection 4.x before 4.6.1.1 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary SQL co
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• CVE-2015-4548EMC RSA Web Threat Detection before 5.1 SP1 allows local users to obtain root privileges by leveraging access to a service account and writi
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• CVE-2016-0919EMC RSA Web Threat Detection version 5.0, RSA Web Threat Detection version 5.1, RSA Web Threat Detection version 5.1.2 has a cross site scri
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• CVE-2015-4547EMC RSA Web Threat Detection before 5.1 SP1 stores a cleartext AnnoDB password in a configuration file, which allows remote authenticated us
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FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Root cause

State-changing requests rely on the session cookie the browser sends automatically; nothing verifies that the request came from the user’s own page.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1app.use(session({ cookie: { httpOnly: true } }));2app.post("/account/address", updateAddress);

1app.use(session({ cookie: { httpOnly: true, sameSite: "lax" } }));2app.post("/account/address", csrfProtection, updateAddress);

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.