Alta-Aware-765 CSRF risk due to insufficient Origin header validation and CORS misconfiguration

Release Date

25th of May 2023.

Overview

Due to insufficient Origin header validation and CORS misconfiguration, a CSRF attack was possible.

Affected Products

• Ava Cameras:
  • All Stable upgrade Channel versions before 5.7.9.
  • All Beta upgrade channel versions before 5.7.3.
• Ava Cloud: before 10th March 2023.

Unaffected Products

• Ava Aware: all versions.
• Ava Cameras:
  • All Stable upgrade channel versions after and including 5.7.9.
  • All Beta upgrade channel versions after and including 5.7.3.
• Ava Cloud: from 10th March 2023.

Resolution

A fix was deployed to the Ava Cloud on 10th March 2023. Ava Cloud customers do not need to take any additional action.

This issue has been fixed in Ava Camera Beta upgrade channel version 5.7.3 and Stable upgrade channel version 5.7.9.

It is highly recommended that all Ava Camera installations running an affected version upgrade to the latest release as soon as possible. Releases are available to download through the Ava Aware User Interface for Ava managed cameras and the Ava Camera User Interface for unmanaged Ava cameras.

Vulnerability Information

• CVE: pending
• CVSSv3 score: 8.8 (High)
• CVSSv3 vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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

• 22/02/2023 Issue found internally by Ava Security
• 02/03/2023 Root cause established
• 03/03/2023 Fix identified
• 10/03/2023 Patched Ava Cloud released
• 09/03/2023 Patched Ava Cameras (Beta upgrade channel) released
• 06/04/2023 Patched Ava Cameras (Stable upgrade channel) released
• 25/05/2023 Vulnerability publicly disclosed