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FKIE_CVE-2023-42812

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2023-09-22 17:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 06:24
Severity
6.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
4.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
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.
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/galaxyproject/galaxy/blob/06d56c859713b74f1c2e35da1c2fcbbf0a965645/lib/galaxy/files/uris.pyIssue Tracking
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/galaxyproject/galaxy/security/advisories/GHSA-vf5q-r8p9-35xhExploit, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/galaxyproject/galaxy/blob/06d56c859713b74f1c2e35da1c2fcbbf0a965645/lib/galaxy/files/uris.pyIssue Tracking
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/galaxyproject/galaxy/security/advisories/GHSA-vf5q-r8p9-35xhExploit, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
galaxyproject galaxy *
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