CVE-2025-46721 nosurf vulnerable to CSRF due to non-functional same-origin request checks

Vulnerability Details

Basic Information

Title CVE-2025-46721 nosurf vulnerable to CSRF due to non-functional same-origin request checks
Type cve
Published 2025-05-13T15:29:30
Last Seen 2025-05-13T16:13:10
CVSS Score 0.0 ()

CVSS v3 Details

Attack Vector
Attack Complexity
Privileges Required
User Interaction
Scope
Confidentiality Impact
Integrity Impact
Availability Impact

CVE Information

CVE IDs CVE-2025-46721
CWE CWE-352
Bulletin Family cve

Description

nosurf is cross-site request forgery (CSRF) protection middleware for Go. A vulnerability in versions prior to 1.2.0 allows an attacker who controls content on the target site, or on a subdomain of the target site (either via XSS, or otherwise) to bypass CSRF checks and issue requests on user’s behalf. Due to misuse of the Go `net/http` library, nosurf categorizes all incoming requests as plain-text HTTP requests, in which case the `Referer` header is not checked to have the same origin as the target webpage. If the attacker has control over HTML contents on either the target website (e.g. `example.com`), or on a website hosted on a subdomain of the target (e.g. `attacker.example.com`), they will also be able to manipulate cookies set for the target website. By acquiring the secret CSRF token from the cookie, or overriding the cookie with a new token known to the attacker, `attacker.example.com` is able to craft cross-site requests to `example.com`. A patch for the issue was released in nosurf 1.2.0. In lieu of upgrading to a patched version of nosurf, users may additionally use another HTTP middleware to ensure that a non-safe HTTP request is coming from the same origin (e.g. by requiring a `Sec-Fetch-Site: same-origin` header in the request).

Impact Assessment

Base Score 0.0
Severity

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