CVE-2017-12970

high
Published 2017-08-23 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
8.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
VIR risk
8.8

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Apache2Triad 1.5.4 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of authenticated users for requests that (1) add or (2) delete user accounts via a request to phpsftpd/users.php.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
92%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
apache2triadapache2triad1.5.4

References

CWEs

CWE-352

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Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.