Cross-Site Request Forgery in OWASP CSRFGuard

HIGH 8.8CVE-2021-28490 · GHSA-jx66-5ww9-m6q4 · Published 19/08/2021 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2021-28490 is a HIGH (CVSS 8.8) vulnerability affecting org.owasp:csrfguard, csrfguard (owasp).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.50%, higher than 42.9% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 4.0.0 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
org.owasp:csrfguard Maven	`< 4.0.0`	`4.0.0`
csrfguard owasp	`= 4.0≤ 3.1.0`	No fix yet

In OWASP CSRFGuard through 3.1.0, CSRF can occur because the CSRF cookie may be retrieved by using only a session token.

NVD description

In OWASP CSRFGuard through 3.1.0, CSRF can occur because the CSRF cookie may be retrieved by using only a session token.

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