Vulnerability · Published Jun 1, 2025 · Assigned by VulDB

CVE-2025-5410Mist Community Edition middleware.py session_start_response cross-site request forgery

Medium 4.3

In plain English

A medium-severity cross-site request forgery in Community Edition from Mist. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 24% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)4.3Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 75.9% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

A vulnerability was found in Mist Community Edition up to 4.7.1. It has been declared as problematic. This vulnerability affects the function session_start_response of the file src/mist/api/auth/middleware.py. The manipulation leads to cross-site request forgery. The attack can be initiated remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. Upgrading to version 4.7.2 is able to address this issue. The patch is identified as db10ecb62ac832c1ed4924556d167efb9bc07fad. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Mist	Community Edition	4.7.04.7.1

Weakness: CWE-352, CWE-862 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

References

VDB-310750 | Mist Community Edition middleware.py session_start_response cross-site request forgery vdb-entry, technical-description
VDB-310750 | CTI Indicators (IOB, IOC, IOA) signature, permissions-required
Submit #583532 | Mist.io Mist Community Edition (CE) 4.7.1 Cross-Site Request Forgery third-party-advisory
https://github.com/Stolichnayer/mist-ce-csrf exploit
https://github.com/mistio/mist.api/commit/db10ecb62ac832c1ed4924556d167efb9bc07fad patch
https://github.com/mistio/mist-ce/releases/tag/v4.7.2 patch