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CVE-2024-41668: cBioPortal Proxy Endpoint Vulnerabliity

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-07-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-918

Description

The cBioPortal for Cancer Genomics provides visualization, analysis, and download of large-scale cancer genomics data sets. When running a publicly exposed proxy endpoint without authentication, cBioPortal could allow someone to perform a Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF) attack. Logged in users could do the same on private instances. A fix has been released in version 6.0.12. As a workaround, one might be able to disable `/proxy` endpoint entirely via, for example, nginx.

Affected products

• Cbioportal Project Cbioportal: before 6.0.12 — fixed in 6.0.12

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Cbioportal Project Cbioportal 6.0.12. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/cBioPortal/cbioportal/commit/ea8642fdbda2d61d2ab34b9da7a1594680bbbcd5
• https://github.com/cBioPortal/cbioportal/pull/10884
• https://github.com/cBioPortal/cbioportal/releases/tag/v6.0.12
• https://github.com/cBioPortal/cbioportal/security/advisories/GHSA-9h44-r3c3-q7rm
• https://www.wizlynxgroup.com/security-research-advisories/vuln/WLX-2024-004
• https://github.com/cBioPortal/cbioportal/commit/ea8642fdbda2d61d2ab34b9da7a1594680bbbcd5
• https://github.com/cBioPortal/cbioportal/pull/10884
• https://github.com/cBioPortal/cbioportal/releases/tag/v6.0.12
• https://github.com/cBioPortal/cbioportal/security/advisories/GHSA-9h44-r3c3-q7rm
• https://www.wizlynxgroup.com/security-research-advisories/vuln/WLX-2024-004

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