CVE-2020-28452

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Summary

CVECVE-2020-28452
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-01-20 18:15:00 UTC
Updated2021-01-27 15:22:00 UTC
DescriptionThis affects the package com.softwaremill.akka-http-session:core_2.12 from 0 and before 0.6.1; all versions of package com.softwaremill.akka-http-session:core_2.11; the package com.softwaremill.akka-http-session:core_2.13 from 0 and before 0.6.1. CSRF protection can be bypassed by forging a request that contains the same value for both the X-XSRF-TOKEN header and the XSRF-TOKEN cookie value, as the check in randomTokenCsrfProtection only checks that the two values are equal and non-empty.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-352

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Softwaremill Akka-http-session All All All All
Application Softwaremill Akka-http-session All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Cross-site Request Forgery (CSRF) in com.softwaremill.akka-http-session:core_2.11 | Snyk MISC snyk.io Third Party Advisory
hmac encoded csrf token by willemvermeer · Pull Request #79 · softwaremill/akka-http-session · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
Cross-site Request Forgery (CSRF) in com.softwaremill.akka-http-session:core_2.13 | Snyk MISC snyk.io Third Party Advisory
CSRF protection can be bypassed · Issue #77 · softwaremill/akka-http-session · GitHub MISC github.com Third Party Advisory
Cross-site Request Forgery (CSRF) in com.softwaremill.akka-http-session:core_2.12 | Snyk MISC snyk.io Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

Discovery Credit

LEGACY: Willem Vermeer

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