Check Point Advisories

Netgate pfSense Cross-Site Request Forgery (CVE-2017-1000479)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2017-1698
Date Published: 27 Sep 2023
Severity: High
Last Updated: Wednesday 27 September, 2023
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2017-1000479
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable? Netgate pfSense 2.4.1 and prior
Opnsense project prior to 16.1.16
Vulnerability Description A cross-site request forgery vulnerability exists in Netgate pfSense. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability can result in the execution of arbitrary code in the effected system.

Protection Overview

This protection detects attempts to exploit this vulnerability.

In order for the protection to be activated, update your Security Gateway product to the latest IPS update. For information on how to update IPS, go to SBP-2006-05, click on Protection tab and select the version of your choice.

Security Gateway R81 / R80 / R77 / R75

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Netgate pfSense Cross-Site Request Forgery (CVE-2017-1000479) protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
  2. Install policy on all Security Gateways.

This protection's log will contain the following information:

Attack Name:  Web Server Enforcement Violation.
Attack Information:  Netgate pfSense Cross-Site Request Forgery (CVE-2017-1000479)

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