HPSBGN03521 rev.2 - HP Operations Orchestration Central, Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

  • KM02993500
  • 19-Oct-2017
  • 19-Oct-2017

Summary

A potential security vulnerability has been identified in HP Operations Orchestration Central. The vulnerability could be exploited to allow Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF).

Reference

SUPPORT COMMUNICATION - SECURITY BULLETIN

Document ID: KM02993500 (c04894110)

Version: 2

HPSBGN03521 rev.2 - HP Operations Orchestration Central, Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
NOTICE: The information in this Security Bulletin should be acted upon as soon as possible.

Release Date: 2015-11-18

Last Updated: 2015-11-18


Potential Security Impact: Remote Compromise of System Integrity

Source: Hewlett-Packard Company, HP Software Security Response Team

VULNERABILITY SUMMARY

A potential security vulnerability has been identified in HP Operations Orchestration Central. The vulnerability could be exploited to allow Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF).

References:
  • CVE-2015-5451
  • SSRT102923

SUPPORTED SOFTWARE VERSIONS*: ONLY impacted versions are listed.

  • HP Operations Orchestration - all 10.x versions prior to 10.22.001

BACKGROUND

For a PGP signed version of this security bulletin please write to: security-alert@hp.com

CVSS 2.0 Base Metrics
Reference
Base Vector
Base Score
CVE-2015-5451
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
7.2
Information on CVSS is documented in HP Customer Notice: HPSN-2008-002

RESOLUTION

HP has released the following update and patch to resolve the vulnerability in Operations Orchestration.

Customers have the following update choices:

  1. For all versions prior to v10.22.001, upgrade to v10.50. This is HP’s recommended solution.

    Following the above upgrade path, the CSRF protection in v10.50 is enabled by default.

  2. For versions 10.2x which cannot be upgraded to v10.50 immediately, CSRF protection setting can be enabled by applying the patch v10.22.001.

    The patch v10.22.001 is available at:http://support.microfocus.com/kb/kmdoc.php?id=LID/OO_00035

    After applying this patch, CSRF protection setting should be manually enabled by the following procedure:https://softwaresupport.hp.com/group/softwaresupport/search-result/-/facetsearch/document/KM01858399

Note: If the CSRF protection settings was not enabled while using the v10.22.001 patch the setting will remain disabled even after upgrading to v10.50.

The CSRF protection setting must be manually enabled by the following procedure:https://softwaresupport.hp.com/group/softwaresupport/search-result/-/facetsearch/document/KM01858399

HISTORY 
Version:1 (rev.1) - 17 November 2015 Initial release 
Version:2 (rev.2) - 18 November 2015 Changed the impacted versions - prior to v10.22.001

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