Vulnerability · Published Apr 15, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M
CVE-2025-24358gorilla/csrf CSRF vulnerability due to broken Referer validation
Medium 5.4
In plain English
A medium-severity cross-site request forgery in csrf from gorilla. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 32% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.
Official description
gorilla/csrf provides Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) prevention middleware for Go web applications & services. Prior to 1.7.2, gorilla/csrf does not validate the Origin header against an allowlist. Its executes its validation of the Referer header for cross-origin requests only when it believes the request is being served over TLS. It determines this by inspecting the r.URL.Scheme value. However, this value is never populated for "server" requests per the Go spec, and so this check does not run in practice. This vulnerability allows an attacker who has gained XSS on a subdomain or top level domain to perform authenticated form submissions against gorilla/csrf protected targets that share the same top level domain. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.7.2.
Affected packages & fixed versions
| Ecosystem | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian:12 | golang-github-gorilla-csrf | no fix listed | DEBIAN-CVE-2025-24358 |
| Debian:13 | golang-github-gorilla-csrf | 1.7.2+ds1-2 | DEBIAN-CVE-2025-24358 |
| Debian:14 | golang-github-gorilla-csrf | 1.7.2+ds1-2 | DEBIAN-CVE-2025-24358 |
| Go | github.com/gorilla/csrf | 1.7.3 | GO-2025-3607 |
| Go | github.com/gorilla/csrf | 1.7.3 | GHSA-rq77-p4h8-4crw |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | golang-github-gorilla-csrf | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-24358 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | golang-github-gorilla-csrf | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-24358 |
| Ubuntu:25.10 | golang-github-gorilla-csrf | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-24358 |
| Ubuntu:26.04:LTS | golang-github-gorilla-csrf | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-24358 |
| Ubuntu:26.10 | golang-github-gorilla-csrf | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-24358 |
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-352 · Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P