Security advisory

{
  "id": "0596cb4c1e0b1e0b6cf0a78bf683e64103fad64bc0a328fa61f91b947b468126",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-12540",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2018-12540",
    "summary": "In version from 3.0.0 to 3.5.2 of Eclipse Vert.x, the CSRFHandler do not assert that the XSRF Cookie matches the returned XSRF header/form parameter. This allows replay attacks with previously issued tokens which are not expired yet.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2018-12540",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2018-12540",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2018-12540",
        "GHSA-rvgg-f8qm-6h7j"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/eclipse-vertx/vert.x",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "187083cc2572afe82b5bf9c743fa4df868926a56"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "f57bce3b2f5ce2f57f33334ee1b6b88aa202827b"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:vert.x:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "3.0.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "3.5.2"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "3.5.2",
            "3.5.2.CR3",
            "3.5.2.CR2",
            "3.5.2.CR1",
            "3.5.1",
            "3.5.0",
            "3.5.0.Beta1",
            "3.4.2",
            "3.4.1",
            "3.4.0",
            "3.4.0.Beta1",
            "3.3.3",
            "3.3.2",
            "3.3.1",
            "3.3.0",
            "3.3.0.CR2",
            "3.2.1",
            "3.2.0",
            "3.1.0",
            "3.0.0"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-12540.json"
          }
        },
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/vert-x3/vertx-web",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "d2c694c1936370c12f14b80b4a3591e43914844d"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "7437819b5be45beab1200e0214cb8890f9627e70"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:vert.x:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "3.0.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "3.5.2"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "3.5.2",
            "3.5.2.CR3",
            "3.5.2.CR2",
            "3.5.2.CR1",
            "3.5.1",
            "3.5.0",
            "3.4.2",
            "3.4.1",
            "3.4.0",
            "3.4.0.Beta1",
            "3.3.3",
            "3.3.2",
            "3.3.1",
            "3.3.0",
            "3.3.0.CR2",
            "3.2.1",
            "3.2.0",
            "3.1.0",
            "3.0.0"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-12540.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:47:39.204809326Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r10aef585c521f8ef603f5831f9d97a27d920624025131da950e0c62f%40%3Ccommits.pulsar.apache.org%3E",
        "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r3fffda8e947edaa359152c8dc4c4ea9c96fd8ced1999bbce92bc6b25%40%3Ccommits.pulsar.apache.org%3E",
        "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r59482ebed302aa49ac7e0c51737499746b0d086fcdeb8f90e705951f%40%3Ccommits.pulsar.apache.org%3E",
        "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rc5b4ae8a7caae6d3d5b3266cb050823b96dd62b30718b90b778d3d8b%40%3Ccommits.pulsar.apache.org%3E",
        "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2371",
        "https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=536948"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "unresolved_ranges": [
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:a:eclipse:vert.x:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "eclipse:vert.x",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "3.0.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "3.5.2"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_RANGE"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2018-12540",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 441434,
  "published_at": "2018-07-12T14:29:00.273+00:00"
}