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CVE-2017-5657

HIGH

8.0

CVSS Severity Score

EPSS Score0.1230%

EPSS Percentile41.95th

PublishedMay 22, 2017

Last ModifiedMay 13, 2026

Vulnerability Description

Several REST service endpoints of Apache Archiva are not protected against Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks. A malicious site opened in the same browser as the archiva site, may send an HTML response that performs arbitrary actions on archiva services, with the same rights as the active archiva session (e.g. administrator rights).

Affected Platforms (CPE)

📦

Apache

Archiva

<= 2.2.1

References & Advisories

🔗 http://archiva.apache.org/security.html#CVE-2017-5657

🔗 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98570

🔗 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038528

🔗 https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ff8dcfe29377088ab655fda9d585dccd5b1f07fabd94ae84fd60a7f8%40%3Ccommits.pulsar.apache.org%3E

🔗 http://archiva.apache.org/security.html#CVE-2017-5657

🔗 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98570

🔗 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038528

🔗 https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ff8dcfe29377088ab655fda9d585dccd5b1f07fabd94ae84fd60a7f8%40%3Ccommits.pulsar.apache.org%3E

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