#VU24391 Cross-site request forgery in Pivotal Spring Framework - CVE-2020-5397
Published: January 20, 2020
Pivotal Spring Framework
Pivotal
Description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site request forgery attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of the CORS preflight requests that target Spring MVC (spring-webmvc module) or Spring WebFlux (spring-webflux module) endpoints. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially crafted web page and perform arbitrary actions on behalf of the victim on the vulnerable website, such as be sent or received as a result of this attack.