CVE-2016-8737
In Apache Brooklyn before 0.10.0, the REST server is vulnerable to cross-site request forgery (CSRF), which could permit a malicious web…
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Description
In Apache Brooklyn before 0.10.0, the REST server is vulnerable to cross-site request forgery (CSRF), which could permit a malicious web site to produce a link which, if clicked whilst a user is logged in to Brooklyn, would cause the server to execute the attacker's commands as the user. There is known to be a proof-of-concept exploit using this vulnerability.
Timeline
ID reserved
By apache
- 11 months later
· 11 months later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.3% · top 29% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Weakness
- Cross-site request forgery (CSRF)
- CWE-352 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-352 and its CVEs
Affected products
Apache Software Foundation · Apache Brooklyn
- affected 0.9.0 and all prior versions
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.apache.brooklyn:brooklyn-jsguiGHSA-g2hf-g7fh-vg92 (opens in a new tab)
- Mavenorg.apache.brooklyn:brooklyn-rest-resourcesGHSA-g2hf-g7fh-vg92 (opens in a new tab)
References (3)
- https://brooklyn.apache.org/community/security/CVE-2016-8737.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 96228 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- [dev] 20170210 [SECURITY] CVE-2016-8737: Cross-site request forgery vulnerability in Apache Brooklyn (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-g2hf-g7fh-vg92 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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