CVE Catalog

CVE-2016-6801

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

CVE-2016-6801 involves a content-type check vulnerability in Jackrabbit-Webdav, allowing remote attackers to hijack the authentication of victims for resource creation via an HTTP POST request with a missing or crafted Content-Type header.

Risk Assessment

CSRF attacks can lead to unauthorized access to resources and potential data loss, posing a serious security threat to the organization.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update Apache Jackrabbit to versions 2.4.6, 2.6.6, 2.8.3, 2.10.4, 2.12.4, or 2.13.3 to mitigate this vulnerability.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the CSRF content-type check in Jackrabbit-Webdav in Apache Jackrabbit 2.4.x before 2.4.6, 2.6.x before 2.6.6, 2.8.x before 2.8.3, 2.10.x before 2.10.4, 2.12.x before 2.12.4, and 2.13.x before 2.13.3 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of unspecified victims for requests that create a resource via an HTTP POST request with a (1) missing or (2) crafted Content-Type header.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS