Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in pterodactyl/panel
Reported on
Oct 23rd 2021
Description
Attacker is able to logout a user if a logged in user visits attacker website.
Impact
This vulnerability is capable of forging user to unintentional logout.
Test
Tested on Firefox, Chrome and Safari.
Fix
You use POST instead of GET.
To expand:
One way ANY could be abused here is that a person (competitor perhaps:) placed an image tag with src="<your logout link>" ANYWHERE on the internet, and if a user of your site stumbles upon that page, he will be unknowingly logged out.
This is why it should be a POST with a @csrf token and not GET.
While this cannot harm a users account it can be a great annoyance.
@admin please do not create a CVE — we handle disclosures and CVE issuance through through GitHub's security tooling, not third-parties. Additionally the CVSS score for this report is incorrect.
@maintainer - a CVE will not be created for this report. Can you please confirm with the researcher, the appropriate CVSS score for this report, and we can look to update this for you.
Cheers! 🎊
The security advisory is published here: https://github.com/pterodactyl/panel/security/advisories/GHSA-m49f-hcxp-6hm6
Per GitHub's scoring it is a 0 due to the fact that it only signs a single user out, and is an annoyance rather than an actual exploit or ability to exfiltrate any data.
Github uses a different scoring. The score really is not up to me. Even so I cannot change it at this point. You can test here https://huntr.dev/bounties/disclose/ with your repo url to see the scoring for CSRF. If I was off on a value then my apologies. But as I noted in the description while this is a VALID CSRF it is not harmful and is more of a annoyance that can be easily fixed.