# CVE-2019-10176: Cross-site request forgery in atomic-openshift

> An attacker can perform CSRF attacks on the OpenShift cluster console by reusing static session tokens, potentially bypassing security controls.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.2 (`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 2 Aug 2019
- **Updated:** 4 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-2g38-6996-78pm

## What is CVE-2019-10176?

CVE-2019-10176 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Redhat Openshift Container Platform, published on 2 Aug 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

A flaw was found in OpenShift Container Platform, versions 3.11 and later, in which the CSRF tokens used in the cluster console component were found to remain static during a user's session. An attacker with the ability to observe the value of this token would be able to re-use the token to perform a CSRF attack.

Weakness: CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-10176?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Redhat Openshift Container Platform.

## How do I fix CVE-2019-10176?

No fix has been published for CVE-2019-10176 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2019-10176 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-10176 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Redhat Openshift Container Platform

- [CVE-2020-27836](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-27836/): Missing authorization in cluster-ingress-operator (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2018-1085](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-1085/): Misconfiguration in openshift-ansible (critical 9.0)
- [CVE-2026-54099](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-54099/): Privilege escalation in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2026-1784](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-1784/): Ose-cluster-ingress-operator: remote code execution through haproxy configuration injection (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2021-20182](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-20182/): Privilege escalation in openshift (high 8.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2019-10176 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2019-10176 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Redhat Openshift Container Platform, published on 2 Aug 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-10176 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Redhat Openshift Container Platform. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-10176/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-10176/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-10176
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-10176
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-10176

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-10176/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.