CVE-2017-5264

high
Published 2017-12-14 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
8.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
6.8
VIR risk
8.8

Description

Versions of Nexpose prior to 6.4.66 fail to adequately validate the source of HTTP requests intended for the Automated Actions administrative web application, and are susceptible to a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attack.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
92%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@rapid7.com — https://help.rapid7.com/nexpose/en-us/release-notes/archive/2017/12/#6.4.66

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
rapid7nexpose{"endExcluding":"6.4.66"}6.4.66

References

CWEs

CWE-352

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.