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WEB APPLICATION VULNERABILITIES Standard & Premium

Play Framework Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Vulnerability (CVE-2020-12480)

Description

In Play Framework 2.6.0 through 2.8.1, the CSRF filter can be bypassed by making CORS simple requests with content types that contain parameters that can't be parsed.

Remediation

References

CVE-2020-12480

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Severity

Medium

Classification

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Tags

Missing Update Known Vulnerabilities CWE-352 CVE-2020-12480

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