CVE-2022-51020
What it is
Flower before 2.2.0 contains a cross-site request forgery vulnerability because Tornado xsrf_cookies is disabled and the OAuth session cookie lacks SameSite. Attackers can lure authenticated users to malicious pages that POST to /api/worker/shutdown, /api/worker/pool/restart, or /api/task/revoke to shut down Celery workers, resize pools, and revoke tasks.
At a glance
- Exploitability
- Can be exploited over the network without logging in, but needs a user to act. High risk of service disruption.
- Exploit odds
- 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS).
- Fix
- A patch, advisory or fixed version is referenced. Upgrade or apply it.
Timeline
- ReservedThe CVE id was reserved by its CNA
- PublishedDisclosed publicly on CVE.org and NVD
- Last updatedMost recent change to the record
Why it ranks here
- Exploited in the wild: no, CISA does not list it.
- Exploit odds: 0.1% in the next 30 days (EPSS).
- Severity: 6.0 MEDIUM (CVSS).
- Fix: a patch or advisory is linked.
Details
- Published
- Last modified
- Exploit probability
- 0.1% · EPSS, next 30 days
- Weakness
- CWE-352 · Cross-site request forgery
- Record status
- Deferred
Attack profile CVSS 4.0 · 6.0
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- Present
- Privileges needed
- None
- User interaction
- Passive
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- High
Raw vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:L/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
Is it in your code?
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Fix and advisories
- https://github.com/mher/flower/commit/3b2115af7f9c42bd2da2fbcbd919f77013e9ec51
- https://github.com/mher/flower/commit/a14408b16cc3d2877d36659005ce0d72b6162629
References
- https://github.com/mher/flower
- https://github.com/mher/flower/blob/v2.1.0/flower/api/control.py#L25-L27
- https://github.com/mher/flower/commit/3b2115af7f9c42bd2da2fbcbd919f77013e9ec51
- https://github.com/mher/flower/commit/a14408b16cc3d2877d36659005ce0d72b6162629
- https://github.com/mher/flower/issues/1217
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/flower-before-2.2.0-csrf-via-worker-and-task-control-api-endpoints