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    GHSA-g2hf-g7fh-vg92

    Published: 17 May 2022Last Modified: 22 Apr 2025
    Aliases:
    CVE-2016-8737

    Summary: Apache Brooklyn is vulnerable to cross-site request forgery (CSRF)

    Details: In Apache Brooklyn before 0.10.0, the REST server is vulnerable to cross-site request forgery (CSRF), which could permit a malicious web site to produce a link which, if clicked whilst a user is logged in to Brooklyn, would cause the server to execute the attacker's commands as the user. There is known to be a proof-of-concept exploit using this vulnerability.

    References: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-8737, https://github.com/apache/brooklyn-server/pull/430, https://github.com/apache/brooklyn-ui/pull/37, https://brooklyn.apache.org/community/security/CVE-2016-8737.html, https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/877813aaaa0e636adbc36106b89a54e0e6918f0884e9c8b67d5d5953%40%3Cdev.brooklyn.apache.org%3E

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: org.apache.brooklyn:brooklyn-rest-resources

    Purl: pkg:maven/org.apache.brooklyn/brooklyn-rest-resources

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0.10.0

    Affected versions

    0.9.0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High