Description
Micro Focus Application Automation Tools Plugin 6.7 and earlier does not perform permission checks in methods implementing form validation.
This allows attackers with Overall/Read permission to connect to attacker-specified URLs using attacker-specified username and password.
Additionally, these form validation methods do not require POST requests, resulting in a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability.
Micro Focus Application Automation Tools Plugin 6.8 requires POST requests and Overall/Administer permission for the affected form validation methods.
Basic information
- Type
- reviewed
- Severity
- medium
- Advisory on GitHub
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- Repository advisory
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- Source code
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- Published (advisory)
- 2022-05-24 17:46:58 UTC
- Updated
- 2023-12-07 15:05:26 UTC
- GitHub reviewed
- 2022-12-13 19:00:22 UTC
- NVD published
- 2021-04-08
EPSS Score
| Score |
Percentile |
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0.12%
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30.51% |
CVSS Scores
| Base score |
Version |
Severity |
Vector |
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4.3
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3.1 |
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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
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- Attack vector (AV:N)
- Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
- Attack complexity (AC:L)
- Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
- Privileges required (PR:L)
- A normal user session is enough; they don’t have to be admin.
- User interaction (UI:N)
- Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping.
- Scope (S:U)
- Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
- Confidentiality (C:N)
- Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way.
- Integrity (I:L)
- Attackers could change some data, but it’s limited—not everything goes.
- Availability (A:N)
- Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
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CWEs
| CWE id |
Name |
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CWE-352
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Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) |
Affected packages (1)
Vulnerable version ranges and first patched releases as published by GitHub.
| Ecosystem |
Package |
Vulnerable range |
First patched |
Vulnerable functions |
| maven |
org.jenkins-ci.plugins:hp-application-automation-tools-plugin |
<= 6.7 |
6.8 |
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