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CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) - CVE-2014-2974

Silver Peak VX version 6.2.2.0_47968 contains a cross-site request forgery vulnerability in /php/user_account.php that allows an unauthenticated user to create a new administrator account.

CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') - CVE-2014-2975
Silver Peak VX version 6.2.2.0_47968 also contains a reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability in /php/user_account.php that can allow an attacker to inject arbitrary HTML content (including scripts) via the vulnerable query string parameter user_id .

The CVSS score below applies to the CVE-2013-2975 vulnerability.

An attacker can conduct a cross-site scripting or cross-site request forgery attack, which could be used for privilege escalation or to inject arbitrary HTML content (including script) into a web page presented to the user.

Apply an Update
Silver Peak has provided an update to fix CVE-2014-2975 in Silver Peak VX 6.2.4. CVE-2014-2974 is expected to be addressed "in the next maintenance release" according to the vendor.