CVE-2021-26296: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

February 19, 2021 (updated June 2, 2021)

In the default configuration, Apache MyFaces Core to to to use cryptographically weak implicit and explicit cross-site request forgery (CSRF) tokens. Due to that limitation, it is possible (although difficult) for an attacker to calculate a future CSRF token value and to use that value to trick a user into executing unwanted actions on an application.

References

packetstormsecurity.com/files/161484/Apache-MyFaces-2.x-Cross-Site-Request-Forgery.html
lists.apache.org/thread.html/r2b73e2356c6155e9ec78fdd8f72a4fac12f3e588014f5f535106ed9b%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-26296

Code Behaviors & Features

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