CVE-2024-54418
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedCross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Diversified Technology Corp. DTC Documents dtc-documents allows Cross Site Request Forgery.This issue affects DTC Documents: from n/a through <= 1.1.05.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · moderate confidenceCross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in DTC Documents allows attackers to induce authenticated users to perform unwanted actions via malicious requests. The application lacks proper anti-CSRF tokens or origin validation on state-changing endpoints.
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CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- Low
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Inspect session cookies for SameSite attributeUse browser developer tools or a network capture tool to examine cookies set by DTC Documents. Look for the Set-Cookie header and check if the SameSite attribute is present and set to 'Strict' or 'Lax'. Alternatively, check the application's cookie configuration files.Affected if SameSite attribute is missing, set to 'None' without Secure flag, or not configured at all on session cookies
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Examine state-changing endpoints for anti-CSRF tokensReview the HTML source or API responses for forms and AJAX requests that perform state-changing operations (create, update, delete actions). Check if a CSRF token parameter or header is included in these requests.Affected if State-changing endpoints lack CSRF token parameters or headers in their requests
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Verify token presence in form submissionsSubmit a test state-changing request (such as creating or modifying a document) and inspect whether the request body or headers contain a token value that changes per session or per request.Affected if No token value is transmitted with form submissions or the token remains static across requests
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Test for Origin or Referer header validationSend a state-changing request with an arbitrary or mismatched Origin header (for example, using curl or Burp Suite) and observe whether the application accepts or rejects the request.Affected if The application accepts requests from unexpected origins without validation or validation is missing entirely
Your environment is affected if state-changing endpoints lack anti-CSRF tokens, session cookies lack SameSite attributes, and no Origin/Referer validation is performed on requests.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataImplement anti-CSRF tokens for all state-changing operations and configure SameSite cookie attributes to prevent cross-origin requests from executing.
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