CVE-2024-47879: OpenRefine's PreviewExpressionCommand, which is eval, lacks protection against cross-site request forgery (CSRF)

October 24, 2024 (updated December 4, 2024)

Lack of CSRF protection on the preview-expression command means that visiting a malicious website could cause an attacker-controlled expression to be executed. The expression can contain arbitrary Clojure or Python code.

The attacker must know a valid project ID of a project that contains at least one row.

References

github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine
github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/commit/090924ca923489b6c94397cf1f5df7f7f78f0126
github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/security/advisories/GHSA-3jm4-c6qf-jrh3
github.com/advisories/GHSA-3jm4-c6qf-jrh3
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-47879

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