CVE-2023-27578 CRITICAL

CVE-2023-27578: Galaxy vulnerable to unauthorized modification of pages/visualizations due to insufficient permission check

Vendor Galaxyproject
Product galaxy
Weakness CWE-284
Published March 20, 2023
Last update February 25, 2025
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CVSS base score

9.1/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity High

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Galaxy is an open-source platform for data analysis. All supported versions of Galaxy are affected prior to 22.01, 22.05, and 23.0 are affected by an insufficient permission check. Unsupported versions are likely affected as far back as the functionality of Visualizations/Pages exists. Due to this issue, an attacker can modify or delete any Galaxy Visualization or Galaxy Page given they know the encoded ID of it. Additionally, they can copy or import any Galaxy Visualization given they know the encoded ID of it. Patches are available for versions 22.01, 22.05, and 23.0. For the changes to take effect, you must restart all Galaxy server processes. There are no supported workarounds.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

March 20, 2023 CVE published
February 25, 2025 Record updated