Spoofing

Description

It is possible to perform actions in the application and make it look as if they were performed by the system or another user. Examples include sending messages that appear to come from the system and modifying data in the name of other users (who may have more privileges).

Impact

Impersonate the application to increase the chances of a successful phishing or social engineering attack.

Recommendation

Avoid the usage of custom system messages that can be tampered by an user.

Threat

Authenticated attacker from the Internet.

Expected Remediation Time

⌚ minutes.

Score

Default score using CVSS 3.1. It may change depending on the context of the src.

Base

• Attack vector: N
• Attack complexity: L
• Privileges required: L
• User interaction: N
• Scope: U
• Confidentiality: N
• Integrity: L
• Availability: N

Temporal

• Exploit code madurity: X
• Remediation level: U
• Report confidence: C

Result

• Vector string: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N/E:X/RL:U/RC:C
• Score:
  • Base: 4.3
  • Temporal: 4.3
• Severity:
  • Base: Medium
  • Temporal: Medium

Requirements

• 035.Manage privilege modifications
• 096.Set user's required privileges
• 173.Discard unsafe inputs
• 176.Restrict system objects
• 265.Restrict access to critical processes
• 320.Avoid client-side control enforcement

Fixes

• PHP

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