In OpenNMS Horizon, versions opennms-1-0-stable through opennms-27.1.1; OpenNMS Meridian, versions meridian-foundation-2015.1.0-1 through meridian-foundation-2019.1.18-1; meridian-foundation-2020.1.0-1 through meridian-foundation-2020.1.6-1 are vulnerable to CSRF, due to no CSRF protection at /opennms/admin/userGroupView/users/updateUser. This flaw allows assigning ROLE_ADMIN security role to a normal user. Using this flaw, an attacker can trick the admin user to assign administrator privileges to a normal user by enticing him to click upon an attacker-controlled website.

References

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-25931
• OpenNMS/opennms@607151e
• OpenNMS/opennms@eb08b5e
• https://www.whitesourcesoftware.com/vulnerability-database/CVE-2021-25931