Re: CVE Request: CSRF in Grails console

[cve-assign () mitre org]

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> The Grails console (aka Grails Debug Console, Grails Web Console) was
> vulnerable to CSRF.
>
> https://grails.org/plugin/console
> https://github.com/sheehan/grails-console
>
> (this is the plugin, not to be confused with the command line grails
> console: http://docs.grails.org/3.1.1/ref/Command%20Line/console.html
> )
>
> The fix has been made available in versions 1.5.10, 2.0.7. Versions up
> to 1.5.9 and 2.0.6 are affected.
>
> This allows an attacker to (create pages that when visited by a victim
> will) forge requests that will execute arbitrary groovy code on the
> backend (the documentation explains how to enable it in production,
> and granting access to administrators only, so this is not simply a
> development tool).
>
> Bug tracker: https://github.com/sheehan/grails-console/issues/54
> fix commit: https://github.com/sheehan/grails-console/commit/155e0f5f0fe3b3bd7027d730fa00bf0655f28207

Use CVE-2016-6521.

(Conceivably this could have had a CVE-2015 number if
https://github.com/sheehan/grails-console/issues/24 were interpreted as
a vulnerability disclosure; however issues/24 seems too vague.)


> Unfortunately the Grails framework itself ships with some horribly
> insecure defaults. As of 3.1.9 the template code dropped by `grails
> create-app` will have a UrlMappings.groovy that will allow access to
> Grails controllers actions via any HTTP method.

It is possible that a behavior like this could have its own CVE ID if
it is undocumented or interacts incorrectly with run-app. For example,
http://docs.grails.org/1.3.9/guide/single.html#6.4.5%20Mapping%20to%20HTTP%20methods
says "the HTTP method (GET, POST, PUT or DELETE)." Do you mean, for
example, that the OPTIONS or TRACE method can allow access, but the
documentation suggests that only GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE need to be
anticipated?

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