Alta-Aware-863 Ava Aware vulnerable to cross-origin reads

Release Date

31st of October 2023.

Overview

Ava Aware was vulnerable to cross-origin reads, allowing an attacker to issue GET requests to certain API endpoints from any origin domain. Those requests included the user's session cookies and the attacker could access the content of the responses, thus potentially revealing confidential user data.

Affected Products

• Ava Aware:
  • All Stable upgrade channel versions before 6.0.6.
  • All Beta upgrade channel versions before 6.0.5.

Unaffected Products

• Ava Aware:
  • All Stable upgrade channel versions after and including 6.0.6.
  • All Beta upgrade channel versions after and including 6.0.5.
• Ava Cameras: all versions.
• Ava Cloud: all versions.

Resolution

This issue has been fixed in Ava Aware Beta upgrade channel version 6.0.5 and Stable upgrade channel version 6.0.6.

It is strongly recommended that all installations running an affected version are upgraded to the latest release as soon as possible. Releases are available to download through the Ava Aware User Interface.

Vulnerability Information

• CVE: pending
• CVSSv3 score: 5.3 (Medium)
• CVSSv3 vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Mitigations

There are no known mitigations for this issue.

Work arounds

There are no known work arounds for this issue.

Acknowledgements

Issue found internally by Ava Security.

Disclosure Timeline

• 05/07/2023 Issue found internally by Ava Security
• 20/07/2023 Root cause established
• 20/07/2023 Fix identified
• 25/07/2023 Patched Ava Aware (Beta upgrade channel) released
• 31/07/2023 Patched Ava Aware (Stable upgrade channel) released
• 31/10/2023 Vulnerability publicly disclosed