CVE-2026-40458CWE-352

Cross-Site Request Forgery in PAC4J

High · published April 17, 2026

CVSS v4.0
7.0
EPSS
0%
Percentile
7.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

PAC4J is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). A malicious attacker can craft a specially designed website which, when visited by a user, will automatically submit a forged cross-site request with a token whose hash collides with the victim's legitimate CSRF token. Importantly, the attacker does not need to know the victim’s CSRF token or its hash prior to the attack. Collisions in the deterministic String.hashCode() function can be computed directly, reducing the effective token's security space to 32 bits. This bypasses CSRF protection, allowing profile updates, password changes, account linking, and any other state-changing operations to be performed without the victim's consent.

This issue was fixed in PAC4J versions 5.7.10 and 6.4.1

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
7.0 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:H/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
EPSS
0.00184 · 7.6th percentile
Weakness
CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Published
2026-04-17T13:18Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 17 APR 13:18Z
    Cross-Site Request Forgery in PAC4J
    cvelistv5