cbioportal up to 6.0.11 /proxy server-side request forgery

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A vulnerability was found in cbioportal up to 6.0.11. It has been classified as critical. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the file /proxy. Performing a manipulation results in server-side request forgery. This vulnerability is cataloged as CVE-2024-41668. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability was found in cbioportal up to 6.0.11. It has been classified as critical. This affects an unknown code block of the file /proxy. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a server-side request forgery vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-918. The web server receives a URL or similar request from an upstream component and retrieves the contents of this URL, but it does not sufficiently ensure that the request is being sent to the expected destination. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

The cBioPortal for Cancer Genomics provides visualization, analysis, and download of large-scale cancer genomics data sets. When running a publicly exposed proxy endpoint without authentication, cBioPortal could allow someone to perform a Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF) attack. Logged in users could do the same on private instances. A fix has been released in version 6.0.12. As a workaround, one might be able to disable `/proxy` endpoint entirely via, for example, nginx.

It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-41668 since 07/18/2024. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit.

Upgrading to version 6.0.12 eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at github.com. Applying the patch ea8642fdbda2d61d2ab34b9da7a1594680bbbcd5 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

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Name

• cbioportal

Version

• 6.0.0
• 6.0.1
• 6.0.2
• 6.0.3
• 6.0.4
• 6.0.5
• 6.0.6
• 6.0.7
• 6.0.8
• 6.0.9
• 6.0.10
• 6.0.11

License

• open-source

Website

• Product: https://github.com/cBioPortal/cbioportal/

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