CVE-2017-5657

Severity: high (CVSS 8.0 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-05-22 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-352

Description

Several REST service endpoints of Apache Archiva are not protected against Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks. A malicious site opened in the same browser as the archiva site, may send an HTML response that performs arbitrary actions on archiva services, with the same rights as the active archiva session (e.g. administrator rights).

Affected products

Apache Software Foundation Apache Archiva: through 2.2.1

References

http://archiva.apache.org/security.html#CVE-2017-5657
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98570
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038528
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ff8dcfe29377088ab655fda9d585dccd5b1f07fabd94ae84fd60a7f8%40%3Ccommits.pulsar.apache.org%3E
http://archiva.apache.org/security.html#CVE-2017-5657
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98570
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038528
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ff8dcfe29377088ab655fda9d585dccd5b1f07fabd94ae84fd60a7f8%40%3Ccommits.pulsar.apache.org%3E

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