Vulnerability · Published Jul 25, 2022 · Assigned by Hitachi Energy
CVE-2021-40335Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in Hitachi Energy’s MSM Product
Medium 5.0
In plain English
A medium-severity cross-site request forgery in MSM from Hitachi Energy. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 14% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
A vulnerability exists in the HTTP web interface where the web interface does not sufficiently verify if a well-formed, valid, consistent request was intentionally provided by the user who submitted the request. This cause a Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF), which if exploited could lead an attacker to gain unauthorized access to the web application and perform an unwanted operation on it without the knowledge of the legitimate user. An attacker, who successfully makes an MSM user who has already established a session to MSM web interface clicks a forged link to the MSM web interface, e.g., link is sent per E-Mail, could perform harmful command on MSM through its web server interface. This issue affects: Hitachi Energy MSM V2.2 and prior versions.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Hitachi Energy | MSM | v2.2 – through V2.2 |
Weakness: CWE-352 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L