CVE-2020-5397 vulnerability in Pivotal Software and Other Products
Published on January 17, 2020
CSRF Attack via CORS Preflight Requests with Spring MVC or Spring WebFlux
Weakness Type
What is a Session Riding Vulnerability?
The web application does not, or can not, sufficiently verify whether a well-formed, valid, consistent request was intentionally provided by the user who submitted the request. When a web server is designed to receive a request from a client without any mechanism for verifying that it was intentionally sent, then it might be possible for an attacker to trick a client into making an unintentional request to the web server which will be treated as an authentic request. This can be done via a URL, image load, XMLHttpRequest, etc. and can result in exposure of data or unintended code execution.
CVE-2020-5397 has been classified to as a Session Riding vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2020-5397
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Affected Versions
Spring Framework:- Version 5.2 and below v5.2.3.RELEASE is affected.
Exploit Probability
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