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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2020-28452

This affects the package com.softwaremill.akka-http-session:core_2.12 from 0 and before 0.6.1; all versions of package com.softwaremill.akka-http-session:core_2.11; the package com.softwaremill.akka-http-session:core_2.13 from 0 and before 0.6.1. CSRF protection can be bypassed by forging a request that contains the same value for both the X-XSRF-TOKEN header and the XSRF-TOKEN cookie value, as the check in randomTokenCsrfProtection only checks that the two values are equal and non-empty.

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31 Oct 2026, 11:25 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2020-28452

core-osv · Original source

Published 20 Jan 2021, 18:15 UTC

This affects the package com.softwaremill.akka-http-session:core_2.12 from 0 and before 0.6.1; all versions of package com.softwaremill.akka-http-session:core_2.11; the package com.softwaremill.akka-http-session:core_2.13 from 0 and before 0.6.1. CSRF protection can be bypassed by forging a request that contains the same value for both the X-XSRF-TOKEN header and the XSRF-TOKEN cookie value, as the check in randomTokenCsrfProtection only checks that the two values are equal and non-empty.

osv:CVE-2020-28452
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-28452",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "title": "CVE-2020-28452",
    "summary": "This affects the package com.softwaremill.akka-http-session:core_2.12 from 0 and before 0.6.1; all versions of package com.softwaremill.akka-http-session:core_2.11; the package com.softwaremill.akka-http-session:core_2.13 from 0 and before 0.6.1. CSRF protection can be bypassed by forging a request that contains the same value for both the X-XSRF-TOKEN header and the XSRF-TOKEN cookie value, as the check in randomTokenCsrfProtection only checks that the two values are equal and non-empty.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2020-28452",
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:54:19.525126372Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/softwaremill/akka-http-session/issues/77",
        "https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-COMSOFTWAREMILLAKKAHTTPSESSION-1046674",
        "https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-COMSOFTWAREMILLAKKAHTTPSESSION-1046675",
        "https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-COMSOFTWAREMILLAKKAHTTPSESSION-1058933",
        "https://github.com/softwaremill/akka-http-session/pull/79"
      ],
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    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 385044,
  "published_at": "2021-01-20T18:15:12.437+00:00"
}