CVE-2012-2380: Apache Roller Cross-Site-Resource-Forgery (XSRF) vulnerability

Dave <[email protected]>
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Severity: important

Vendor: The Apache Software Foundation

Versions Affected:
Roller 4.0.0 to Roller 4.0.1
Roller 5.0
The unsupported Roller 3.1 release is also affected

Description:
HTTP POST interfaces in the Roller admin/editor console were not
protected from CSRF attacks. This issue has been fixed by requiring a
valid per user and per session "salt" value in all HTTP POST requests.

Mitigation
Roller 4.0 and 4.0.1 users should upgrade to Roller 5.0.1
Roller 5.0 users should upgrade to Roller 5.0.1
Roller 3.1 users should upgrade to Roller 5.0.1

Credit:
This issue was discovered by Jun Zhu, PhD student, University of North
Carolina, Charlotte
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