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

Also known as GHSA-g2hf-g7fh-vg92

Published 9 y ago 2017-09-13 · modified 4 mo ago 2026-06-17 · JSON

CVSS

8.8

v3.0 · NVD

CISA KEV

not known exploited

EPSS

1.3%

percentile 71%

Public exploits

none known

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.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

1.32% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 71% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned by	Version	Score	Vector
NVD	3.0	8.8	`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`
NVD	2.0	6.8	`AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P`
GitHub	3.0	8.8	`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`

Affected packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
maven	`org.apache.brooklyn:brooklyn-rest-resources`	<0.10.0	0.10.0
maven	`org.apache.brooklyn:brooklyn-jsgui`	<0.10.0	0.10.0

Affected products

Apache Software Foundation Apache Brooklyn

Classification

Weakness

CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery

References

brooklyn.apache.org /community/security/CVE-2016-8737.html · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred
securityfocus.com /bid/96228 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, x_transferred
lists.apache.org /thread.html/877813aaaa0e636adbc36106b89a54e0e6918f0884e9c8b67d5d5953%40%3Cdev.brooklyn.ap · mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, x_transferred
nvd.nist.gov /vuln/detail/CVE-2016-8737 · advisory
github.com /apache/brooklyn-server/pull/430 · web
github.com /apache/brooklyn-ui/pull/37 · web

Sources

CVE List: CVE-2016-8737
GitHub Advisory: GHSA-g2hf-g7fh-vg92
NVD: CVE-2016-8737

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Summary