Security Bypass Affecting com.typesafe.play:play_2.12 package, versions [2.6.0-M1,2.7.5)[2.8.0-M1,2.8.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
0.05% (24th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-COMTYPESAFEPLAY-598890
  • published19 Aug 2020
  • disclosed18 Aug 2020
  • creditKevin Joensen (Doyensec)

Introduced: 18 Aug 2020

CVE-2020-12480  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-358  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade com.typesafe.play:play_2.12 to version 2.7.5, 2.8.2 or higher.

Overview

com.typesafe.play:play_2.12 is a library for building scalable web applications with Java and Scala.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Security Bypass. In some situations, Play’s contentType.blackList for Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) protection could be bypassed by sending a malformed Content-Type.

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