CVE-2016-8737

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-09-13 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-352

Description

In Apache Brooklyn before 0.10.0, the REST server is vulnerable to cross-site request forgery (CSRF), which could permit a malicious web site to produce a link which, if clicked whilst a user is logged in to Brooklyn, would cause the server to execute the attacker's commands as the user. There is known to be a proof-of-concept exploit using this vulnerability.

Affected products

Apache Software Foundation Apache Brooklyn: through 0.9.0

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96228
https://brooklyn.apache.org/community/security/CVE-2016-8737.html
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/877813aaaa0e636adbc36106b89a54e0e6918f0884e9c8b67d5d5953%40%3Cdev.brooklyn.apache.org%3E
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96228
https://brooklyn.apache.org/community/security/CVE-2016-8737.html
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/877813aaaa0e636adbc36106b89a54e0e6918f0884e9c8b67d5d5953%40%3Cdev.brooklyn.apache.org%3E

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