CVE-2026-40458 PUBLISHED

Cross-Site Request Forgery in PAC4J

Assigner: CERT-PL
Reserved: 13.04.2026 Published: 17.04.2026 Updated: 17.04.2026

PAC4J is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). A malicious attacker can craft a specially designed website which, when visited by a user, will automatically submit a forged cross-site request with a token whose hash collides with the victim's legitimate CSRF token. Importantly, the attacker does not need to know the victim’s CSRF token or its hash prior to the attack. Collisions in the deterministic String.hashCode() function can be computed directly, reducing the effective token's security space to 32 bits. This bypasses CSRF protection, allowing profile updates, password changes, account linking, and any other state-changing operations to be performed without the victim's consent.

This issue was fixed in PAC4J versions 5.7.10 and 6.4.1

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:H/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 7

Product Status

Vendor PAC4J
Product PAC4J
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 5.0 to 5.7.10 (excl.)
  • affected from 6.0 to 6.4.1 (excl.)

Credits

  • Bartłomiej Dmitruk, striga.ai finder

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) CWE

Impacts

  • CAPEC-62 Cross Site Request Forgery