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FKIE_CVE-2023-38579

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-02-06 22:16 - Updated: 2026-06-17 06:10

Severity

8.0 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

The cross-site request forgery token in the request may be predictable or easily guessable allowing attackers to craft a malicious request, which could be triggered by a victim unknowingly. In a successful CSRF attack, the attacker could lead the victim user to carry out an action unintentionally.

References

	URL	Tags
	ics-cert@hq.dhs.gov	https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-advisories/icsa-24-023-04	Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-advisories/icsa-24-023-04	Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	westermo	l206-f2g_firmware	4.24
	westermo	l206-f2g	-

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CVE-2023-38579 (GCVE-0-2023-38579)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-02-06 21:16 – Updated: 2024-11-07 20:33

Title

Westermo Lynx 206-F2G Cross-Site Request Forgery

Summary

Severity

8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-02-07 19:44 UTC

CWE

CWE-352 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

Assigner

icscert icscert root

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-advisories/i…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Westermo	Lynx	Affected: L206-F2G1 Affected: 4.24

Date Public

2024-01-23 21:16

Credits

Aarón Flecha Menéndez, Iván Alonso Álvarez and Víctor Bello Cuevas reported these vulnerabilities to CISA.

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