Role assignment via disabled CSRF protection
Published Feb 20, 2023 · Updated Mar 10, 2025
Cross-site request forgery in Apollo Portal before 2.1.0 allows low-privileged users to grant themselves roles via an authenticated administrator's browser. AuthConfiguration disables CSRF checks, and a role-assignment POST accepts path variables without a request-body token, allowing a malicious page to submit it with the administrator's cookies. Exploitation requires the administrator to visit the attacker-controlled page; the resulting impact is unauthorized role assignment and privilege escalation.
Summary
What happened
Cross-site request forgery in Apollo Portal before 2.1.0 allows low-privileged users to grant themselves roles via an authenticated administrator's browser. AuthConfiguration disables CSRF checks, and a role-assignment POST accepts path variables without a request-body token, allowing a malicious page to submit it with the administrator's cookies. Exploitation requires the administrator to visit the attacker-controlled page; the resulting impact is unauthorized role assignment and privilege escalation.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2023-25569
- Published
- Feb 20, 2023
- Updated
- Mar 10, 2025
- Vendor
- ApolloConfig
- Product
- Apollo
- Classifications
- T1189
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- Feb 20, 2023CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Mar 10, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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