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Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in keystone

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Nov 30, 2017 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 9, 2023

Package

npm keystone (npm)

Affected versions

<= 4.0.0-beta.6

Patched versions

4.0.0-beta.7

Description

Versions of keystone prior to 4.0.0 are vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). The package fails to validate the presence of the X-CSRF-Token header, which may allow attackers to carry actions on behalf of other users on all endpoints.

Recommendation

Update to version 4.0.0 or later.

References

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Nov 30, 2017
Reviewed Jun 16, 2020
Last updated Jan 9, 2023

Severity

High
8.8
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2017-16570

GHSA ID

GHSA-q43c-g2g7-6gxj

Source code

No known source code
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