etcd — security advisory
A cross-site request forgery flaw was found in etcd 3.3.1 and earlier. An attacker can set up a website that tries to send a POST request to the etcd server and modify a key. Adding a key is done with PUT so it is theoretically safe (can't PUT from an HTML form or such) but POST allows creating in-order keys that an attacker can send.
- Products
- etcd
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 3.4.23-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-1098
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 00:05 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A cross-site request forgery flaw was found in etcd 3.3.1 and earlier. An attacker can set up a website that tries to send a POST request to the etcd server and modify a key. Adding a key is done with PUT so it is theoretically safe (can't PUT from an HTML form or such) but POST allows creating in-order keys that an attacker can send.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2018-1098
etcd
Fixed versions: 3.4.23-1
etcd
Fixed versions: 3.4.23-1
etcd
Fixed versions: 3.4.23-1
Complete source record
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