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CVE-2023-42812 (GCVE-0-2023-42812)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-09-22 16:07 – Updated: 2024-09-24 14:25
VLAI
Title
Galaxy vulnerable to Server Side Request Forgery during data imports
Summary
Galaxy is an open-source platform for FAIR data analysis. Prior to version 22.05, Galaxy is vulnerable to server-side request forgery, which allows a malicious to issue arbitrary HTTP/HTTPS requests from the application server to internal hosts and read their responses. Version 22.05 contains a patch for this issue.
Severity
6.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-09-24 14:16 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-918 - Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
galaxyproject galaxy Affected: < 22.05
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galaxyproject galaxy Affected: 0 , < 22.05 (custom)
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