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CVE-2017-16570

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-11-06 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-352

Description

KeystoneJS before 4.0.0-beta.7 allows application-wide CSRF bypass by removing the CSRF parameter and value, aka SecureLayer7 issue number SL7_KEYJS_03. In other words, it fails to reject requests that lack an x-csrf-token header.

Affected products

• keystonejs keystone: before 4.0.0 — fixed in 4.0.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: keystonejs keystone 4.0.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://blog.securelayer7.net/keystonejs-open-source-penetration-testing-report/
• https://github.com/keystonejs/keystone/issues/4437
• https://github.com/keystonejs/keystone/pull/4478
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43922/
• http://blog.securelayer7.net/keystonejs-open-source-penetration-testing-report/
• https://github.com/keystonejs/keystone/issues/4437
• https://github.com/keystonejs/keystone/pull/4478
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43922/

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