CVE-2016-6801: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

May 17, 2022 (updated July 31, 2023)

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the CSRF content-type check in Jackrabbit-Webdav in Apache Jackrabbit 2.4.x before 2.4.6, 2.6.x before 2.6.6, 2.8.x before 2.8.3, 2.10.x before 2.10.4, 2.12.x before 2.12.4, and 2.13.x before 2.13.3 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of unspecified victims for requests that create a resource via an HTTP POST request with a (1) missing or (2) crafted Content-Type header.

References

www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3679
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/14/6
github.com/advisories/GHSA-9fc7-rhq3-wm7x
issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCR-4009
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6801
web.archive.org/web/20210123170657/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92966

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