CVE-2023-42812 Galaxy vulnerable to Server Side Request Forgery during data imports
Attackers can exploit Server-Side Request Forgery in Galaxy to access internal network resources and read their responses.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2023-42812?
CVE-2023-42812 is a medium-severity server-side request forgery vulnerability in galaxyproject galaxy, published on 22 Sep 2023. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
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.
Weakness: CWE-918
Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-42812?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Galaxyproject Galaxy.
How do I fix CVE-2023-42812?
No fix has been published for CVE-2023-42812 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and send outbound requests through an allow-list that blocks internal addresses. More about Server-side request forgery.
Is CVE-2023-42812 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2023-42812 exists.
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- CVE-2023-27578 Galaxy vulnerable to unauthorized modification of pages/visualizations due to insufficient permission check
- CVE-2022-23470 Arbitrary file access in the Galaxy data analysis platform
- CVE-2024-42346 Stored Cross Site Scripting (Stored XSS) in Galaxy
- CVE-2024-42351 Possible Data Tampering & Loss of Public Datasets in Galaxy
- CVE-2018-1000516 Galaxy cross-site scripting (XSS)
Sources
Also known as GHSA-vf5q-r8p9-35xh.