What is CVE-2023-42812?

CVE-2023-42812 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Galaxyproject Galaxy, classified under Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF). CVSS score: 6.3/10. Published 2023-09-22.

How severe is CVE-2023-42812?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.3 out of 10.

SSRF in Galaxyproject Galaxy

CVE-2023-42812

Galaxy is an open-source platform for FAIR data analysis. Prior to version 22.05, Galaxy is vulnerable to server-side request forgery, which allows a malicious to issue arbitrary HTTP/HTTPS requests from the application server to internal hosts and read their responses. Version 22.05 contains a patch for this issue.

Vulnerability class: SSRF (Server-Side Request Forgery)

Published 2023-09-22 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.004 (29.9th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 30th percentile — 29.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.004 · change: +0.001

Affected products

Galaxyproject Galaxy — versions < 22.05

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-918 — Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

References

github.com/galaxyproject/galaxy/security/advisories/GHSA-vf5q-r8p9-35xh (Exploit, Vendor Advisory)
github.com/galaxyproject/galaxy/blob/06d56c859713b74f1c2e35da1c2fcbbf0a965645/l… (Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-42812?: CVE-2023-42812 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Galaxyproject Galaxy, classified under Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF). CVSS score: 6.3/10. Published 2023-09-22.
How severe is CVE-2023-42812?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.3 out of 10.