MISP up to 2.5.45 Events cullEmptyEvents cross-site request forgery

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A vulnerability has been found in MISP up to 2.5.45 and classified as problematic. This issue affects the function cullEmptyEvents of the component Events. Performing a manipulation results in cross-site request forgery. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2026-85236. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in MISP up to 2.5.45. This affects the function cullEmptyEvents of the component Events. 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. The summary by CVE is:

A cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability existed in the cullEmptyEvents action of MISP. The endpoint performed a state-changing and irreversible operation while accepting HTTP GET requests. Because bodyless GET requests are not subject to CakePHP's CSRF validation, an attacker could cause an authenticated MISP user with sufficient privileges to invoke the endpoint simply by causing their browser to load a crafted URL, for example through an embedded image or other automatically requested resource. Successful exploitation triggers the deletion of published empty events. The deletion is particularly significant because the operation uses skipBlocklist, meaning the removed events do not leave blocklist entries that could prevent or track their subsequent synchronization. This can result in unintended and potentially irreversible deletion of MISP event records without explicit user interaction. The vulnerability was addressed by restricting cullEmptyEvents to HTTP POST requests, ensuring that CakePHP's normal CSRF protections are applied to the operation.

The advisory is shared at github.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-85236 since 09/03/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available.

Applying the patch 2b6b3ac90 is able to eliminate this problem.

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Name

• MISP

Version

• 2.5.0
• 2.5.1
• 2.5.2
• 2.5.3
• 2.5.4
• 2.5.5
• 2.5.6
• 2.5.7
• 2.5.8
• 2.5.9
• 2.5.10
• 2.5.11
• 2.5.12
• 2.5.13
• 2.5.14
• 2.5.15
• 2.5.16
• 2.5.17
• 2.5.18
• 2.5.19
• 2.5.20
• 2.5.21
• 2.5.22
• 2.5.23
• 2.5.24
• 2.5.25
• 2.5.26
• 2.5.27
• 2.5.28
• 2.5.29
• 2.5.30
• 2.5.31
• 2.5.32
• 2.5.33
• 2.5.34
• 2.5.35
• 2.5.36
• 2.5.37
• 2.5.38
• 2.5.39
• 2.5.40
• 2.5.41
• 2.5.42
• 2.5.43
• 2.5.44
• 2.5.45

License

• open-source

Website

• Product: https://github.com/MISP/MISP/

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