CVE-2016-6801 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2016-6801

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the CSRF content-type check...

Vulnerability Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the CSRF content-type check in Jackrabbit-Webdav in Apache Jackrabbit 2.4.x before 2.4.6, 2.6.x before 2.6.6, 2.8.x before 2.8.3, 2.10.x before 2.10.4, 2.12.x before 2.12.4, and 2.13.x before 2.13.3 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of unspecified victims for requests that create a resource via an HTTP POST request with a (1) missing or (2) crafted Content-Type header.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

jackrabbit, debian linux
Vulnerable Versions:
2.4.0, 2.4.1, 2.4.2, 2.4.3, 2.4.4, 2.4.5, 2.6.0, 2.6.1, 2.6.2, 2.6.3, 2.6.4, 2.6.5, 2.8.0, 2.8.1, 2.8.2, 2.10.0, 2.10.1, 2.10.2, 2.10.3, 2.12.0, 2.12.1, 2.12.2, 2.12.3, 2.13.0, 2.13.1, 2.13.2, 8.0

Timeline

Official Publish: September 21st, 2016
Last Modified: August 6th, 2024
Added to House: July 20th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.