CSRF in Tapbots Tweetbot

CVE-2013-5726

Tweetbot 1.3.3 for Mac, and 2.8.5 for iPad and iPhone, does not require confirmation of (1) follow or (2) favorite actions, which allows remote attackers to automatically force the user to perform undesired actions, as demonstrated via the tweetbot:///follow/ URL.

Vulnerability class: CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery)

EPSS: 0.011 (61.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Tapbots Tweetbot — versions 1.3.3, 2.8.5
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-352 — Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

References

cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, Exploit, x_refsource_FULLDISC)
cve@mitre.org (Exploit, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_OSVDB, vdb-entry)