CVE-2016-6521

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2017-01-23 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-352

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Grails console (aka Grails Debug Console and Grails Web Console) 2.0.7, 1.5.10, and earlier allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of users for requests that execute arbitrary Groovy code via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

Gopivotal Grails: through 1.5.9; 2.0.6

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/02/11
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/02/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/03/9
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92267
https://github.com/sheehan/grails-console/issues/54
https://github.com/sheehan/grails-console/issues/55
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/02/11
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/02/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/03/9
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92267
https://github.com/sheehan/grails-console/issues/54
https://github.com/sheehan/grails-console/issues/55

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