What is CVE-2016-6806?

CVE-2016-6806 is a high-severity vulnerability in Apache Wicket, classified under Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2017-10-03.

How severe is CVE-2016-6806?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.

CSRF in Apache Wicket

CVE-2016-6806

Apache Wicket 6.x before 6.25.0, 7.x before 7.5.0, and 8.0.0-M1 provide a CSRF prevention measure that fails to discover some cross origin requests. The mitigation is to not only check the Origin HTTP header, but also take the Referer HTTP…

Vulnerability class: CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery)

EPSS: 0.002 (42.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Apache Wicket — versions 6.20.0, 6.21.0, 6.22.0
Apache Software Foundation Wicket — versions 8.0.0-M1, 7.1.0, 6.21.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-352 — Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

References

security@apache.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-6806?: CVE-2016-6806 is a high-severity vulnerability in Apache Wicket, classified under Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2017-10-03.
How severe is CVE-2016-6806?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.