Vulnerability · Published Dec 14, 2020 · Assigned by redhat
CVE-2020-14368
High 7.1
In plain English
A high-severity cross-site request forgery in eclipse. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.5% (higher than 44% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: public proof-of-concept code.
Official description
A flaw was found in Eclipse Che in versions prior to 7.14.0 that impacts CodeReady Workspaces. When configured with cookies authentication, Theia IDE doesn't properly set the SameSite value, allowing a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) and consequently allowing a cross-site WebSocket hijack on Theia IDE. This flaw allows an attacker to gain full access to the victim's workspace through the /services endpoint. To perform a successful attack, the attacker conducts a Man-in-the-middle attack (MITM) and tricks the victim into executing a request via an untrusted link, which performs the CSRF and the Socket hijack. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability.
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-352
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1823892 x_refsource_MISC