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CVE-2018-3777: Restforce: Improper Input Validation
CVE-2018-3777 is rated critical with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.8 and affects Restforce. Per its scoring, it can be exploited over the network, without authentication, without any user interaction. The scored impact on confidentiality, integrity and availability is the highest available.
Vulnerability description
Insufficient URI encoding in restforce before 3.0.0 allows attacker to inject arbitrary parameters into Salesforce API requests.
Severity breakdown
CVSS v3.1 9.8: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Attack vector: Network. Exploitable remotely over the network, with no need for local or physical access.
- Attack complexity: Low. No special conditions; the attack can be repeated reliably.
- Privileges required: None. No account or prior access is needed.
- User interaction: None. No action from any user is needed.
- Scope: Unchanged. Impact stays within the vulnerable component.
- Confidentiality impact: High. Total loss of confidentiality; sensitive data can be fully disclosed.
- Integrity impact: High. Total loss of integrity; data or system state can be fully modified.
- Availability impact: High. Total loss of availability; the component can be shut down.
Underlying weakness
CWE-20: Improper Input Validation
The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly.
CWE-172: Improper Encoding or Decoding of Data
The product does not properly encode or decode data, resulting in unexpected values that are not equivalent to the original data.
Affected products
- Restforce: before 3.0.0