Cookie integrity bypass via nameless-cookie misparsing
Published Feb 14, 2023 · Updated Mar 10, 2025
Improper cookie parsing in Pallets Werkzeug before 2.2.3 allows context-dependent attackers to shadow protected cookie values. The _cookie_parse_impl parser searches past a leading equals sign, treats the following protected name as the key, and returns the attacker-controlled value. Exploitation requires a vulnerable browser, a malicious or compromised adjacent subdomain, and a Werkzeug application sharing the parent domain; the bounded result is cookie-value integrity loss.
Summary
What happened
Improper cookie parsing in Pallets Werkzeug before 2.2.3 allows context-dependent attackers to shadow protected cookie values. The _cookie_parse_impl parser searches past a leading equals sign, treats the following protected name as the key, and returns the attacker-controlled value. Exploitation requires a vulnerable browser, a malicious or compromised adjacent subdomain, and a Werkzeug application sharing the parent domain; the bounded result is cookie-value integrity loss.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2023-23934
- Published
- Feb 14, 2023
- Updated
- Mar 10, 2025
- Vendor
- Pallets
- Product
- Werkzeug
- Classifications
- CWE-20, T1606.004
- Attack vector
- adjacent
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
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- Feb 14, 2023CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Mar 10, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=< 2.2.3
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