gorilla csrf Referer Validator cross-site request forgery

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A vulnerability was found in gorilla csrf. It has been declared as problematic. Impacted is an unknown function of the component Referer Validator. The manipulation results in cross-site request forgery. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2025-24358. The attack can be executed remotely. Additionally, an exploit exists.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in gorilla csrf (version now known). Affected is some unknown processing of the component Referer Validator. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross-site request forgery vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-352. The web application does not, or can not, sufficiently verify whether a well-formed, valid, consistent request was intentionally provided by the user who submitted the request. This is going to have an impact on integrity. CVE summarizes:

gorilla/csrf provides Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) prevention middleware for Go web applications & services. Prior to 1.7.2, gorilla/csrf does not validate the Origin header against an allowlist. Its executes its validation of the Referer header for cross-origin requests only when it believes the request is being served over TLS. It determines this by inspecting the r.URL.Scheme value. However, this value is never populated for "server" requests per the Go spec, and so this check does not run in practice. This vulnerability allows an attacker who has gained XSS on a subdomain or top level domain to perform authenticated form submissions against gorilla/csrf protected targets that share the same top level domain. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.7.2.

The advisory is shared for download at bugzilla.redhat.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2025-24358 since 01/20/2025. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.

The exploit is shared for download at bugzilla.redhat.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 235057 (Debian dla-4151 : golang-github-gorilla-csrf-dev - security update), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (235057). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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• gorilla

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• csrf

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