# 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.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 22 Sep 2023
- **Updated:** 24 Sep 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-vf5q-r8p9-35xh

## 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 (Server-Side Request Forgery)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-42812?

It affects 1 product.


Products: 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.

## Is CVE-2023-42812 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2023-42812 exists.

## Other vulnerabilities in galaxyproject galaxy

- [CVE-2023-27578](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-27578/): Galaxy vulnerable to unauthorized modification of pages/visualizations due to insufficient permission check (critical 9.1)
- [CVE-2022-23470](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-23470/): Arbitrary file access in the Galaxy data analysis platform (high 8.6)
- [CVE-2024-42346](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-42346/): Stored Cross Site Scripting (Stored XSS) in Galaxy (high 7.6)
- [CVE-2024-42351](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-42351/): Possible Data Tampering & Loss of Public Datasets in Galaxy (medium 6.5)
- [CVE-2018-1000516](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-1000516/): Galaxy cross-site scripting (XSS) (medium 6.1)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2023-42812 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: 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.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2023-42812 exists.

Affected product: galaxyproject galaxy. 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-2023-42812/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-42812/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-42812
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-42812
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-42812

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-42812/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.