CVE-2024-45987
Published: 26 September 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-45987 is a medium-severity CSRF (CWE-352) vulnerability in Online Voting System Project Online Voting System. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 29.1th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-41670
Vulnerability details
Projectworld Online Voting System Version 1.0 is vulnerable to Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) via voter.php. This vulnerability allows an attacker to craft a malicious link that, when clicked by an authenticated user, automatically submits a vote for a specified…
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party without the user's consent or knowledge. The attack leverages the user's active session to perform the unauthorized action, compromising the integrity of the voting process.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
The CSRF vulnerability in the public-facing online voting web application enables attackers to exploit it by tricking authenticated users into submitting unauthorized votes via malicious links, directly facilitating exploitation of public-facing applications.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Awareness training educates users on avoiding untrusted links and actions that can be exploited via CSRF.
Requiring user re-entry of credentials for sensitive actions prevents automated forgery of requests without active user participation.
Security testing regimens explicitly include checks for missing or ineffective anti-CSRF protections in web applications.
Detects anomalous request patterns consistent with cross-site request forgery.