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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

CVE-2020-12480 CWE-352 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Tags

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