CVE-2024-7645
📋 TL;DR
This CSRF vulnerability in SourceCodester Clinics Patient Management System 1.0 allows attackers to trick authenticated users into performing unintended actions on the user management page. Attackers can remotely exploit this to modify user accounts or perform other administrative functions. Organizations using this specific version of the patient management system are affected.
💻 Affected Systems
- SourceCodester Clinics Patient Management System
📦 What is this software?
⚠️ Risk & Real-World Impact
Worst Case
Attackers could create, modify, or delete user accounts, potentially gaining administrative access or disrupting clinic operations.
Likely Case
Attackers trick administrators into creating new privileged accounts or modifying existing user permissions.
If Mitigated
With proper CSRF protections, the attack fails and users are protected from unauthorized actions.
🎯 Exploit Status
Exploit requires the victim to be authenticated and visit a malicious page while logged into the system.
🛠️ Fix & Mitigation
✅ Official Fix
Patch Version: Unknown
Vendor Advisory: Not available
Restart Required: No
Instructions:
No official patch available. Consider implementing CSRF tokens in users.php or upgrading if a newer version becomes available.
🔧 Temporary Workarounds
Implement CSRF Protection
allAdd CSRF tokens to all forms and validate them on the server side in users.php
Manual code modification required - add CSRF token generation and validation
Use SameSite Cookies
allConfigure session cookies with SameSite=Strict attribute
Set-Cookie: session=value; SameSite=Strict; Secure; HttpOnly
🧯 If You Can't Patch
- Implement web application firewall rules to detect CSRF patterns
- Restrict access to the management interface to trusted IP addresses only
🔍 How to Verify
Check if Vulnerable:
Check if users.php lacks CSRF token validation by reviewing the source code or testing with CSRF PoC toolsCheck Version:
Check system version in admin panel or configuration filesVerify Fix Applied:
Test that forms in users.php now include and validate CSRF tokens📡 Detection & Monitoring
Log Indicators:
- Multiple user account modifications from same IP in short time
- User creation/modification without corresponding admin login
Network Indicators:
- HTTP POST requests to users.php without Referer header or with external referers
SIEM Query:
source="web_logs" AND uri="/users.php" AND method="POST" AND NOT referer CONTAINS "your-domain.com"