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TITLE:
Zope Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA24017

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/24017/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Zope 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/397/

DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Zope, which can be
exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site request forgery
attacks

The vulnerabilities are caused due to Zope allowing administrators to
perform certain actions via HTTP requests without performing any
validity checks to verify the request. This can be exploited to e.g.
to add users or change user privileges by enticing a logged-in
administrator to visit a malicious site.

The vulnerability is reported in all Zope versions up to and
including 2.10.2.

SOLUTION:
Apply hotfix:
http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/Hotfix-2007-03-20/announcement/view

NOTE: This hotfix only protects against malicious HTTP GET requests.
Exploitation via POST requests is still possible.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/Hotfix-2007-03-20/announcement/view

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