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Cross-Site Request Forgery in Apache Tomcat

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 17, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 27, 2023

Package

maven org.apache.tomcat:tomcat (Maven)

Affected versions

>= 6.0.0, < 6.0.36
>= 7.0.0, < 7.0.32

Patched versions

6.0.36
7.0.32

Description

org/apache/catalina/filters/CsrfPreventionFilter.java in Apache Tomcat 6.x before 6.0.36 and 7.x before 7.0.32 allows remote attackers to bypass the cross-site request forgery (CSRF) protection mechanism via a request that lacks a session identifier.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Dec 19, 2012
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 17, 2022
Reviewed Jul 13, 2022
Last updated Jan 27, 2023

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

0.124%
(48th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2012-4431

GHSA ID

GHSA-76vr-72mv-mf3q

Source code

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