CVE-2020-5397CWE-352

CSRF Attack via CORS Preflight Requests with Spring MVC or Spring WebFlux

Medium · published January 17, 2020

CVSS v3.0
5.3
EPSS
3%
Percentile
84.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Spring Framework, versions 5.2.x prior to 5.2.3 are vulnerable to CSRF attacks through CORS preflight requests that target Spring MVC (spring-webmvc module) or Spring WebFlux (spring-webflux module) endpoints. Only non-authenticated endpoints are vulnerable because preflight requests should not include credentials and therefore requests should fail authentication. However a notable exception to this are Chrome based browsers when using client certificates for authentication since Chrome sends TLS client certificates in CORS preflight requests in violation of spec requirements. No HTTP body can be sent or received as a result of this attack.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.0
5.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.02551 · 84.9th percentile
Weakness
CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Published
2020-01-17T18:50Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 17 JAN 18:50Z
    CSRF Attack via CORS Preflight Requests with Spring MVC or Spring WebFlux
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