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Vulnerability · Published Jan 20, 2021 · Assigned by snyk

CVE-2020-28452Cross-site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Medium 6.3

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in com.softwaremill.akka-http-session:core_2.11. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.5% (higher than 45% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.3Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.5%top 55.0% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

This 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.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Mavencom.softwaremill.akka-http-session:core_2.120.6.1GHSA-4jf5-jggp-g56j

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
n/a com.softwaremill.akka-http-session:core_2.12 0 – before unspecifiedunspecified – before 0.6.1
n/a com.softwaremill.akka-http-session:core_2.11 0 – before unspecified
n/a com.softwaremill.akka-http-session:core_2.13 0 – before unspecifiedunspecified – before 0.6.1

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