Quay: cross-site request forgery (csrf) on config-editor page

published 2023-09-15 3 y ago modified 2026-11-01 8 d ago also EUVD-2023-54795

cvss: 6.5; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.3%; EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 22%
public exploits: 0; none known

A flaw was found in Quay. Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks force a user to perform unwanted actions in an application. During the pentest, it was detected that the config-editor page is vulnerable to CSRF. The config-editor page is used to configure the Quay instance. By coercing the victim’s browser into sending an attacker-controlled request from another domain, it is possible to reconfigure the Quay instance (including adding users with admin privileges).

Vendor advisories

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red hat product security vex CVE-2023-4959 updated 2026-11-01 cvss 6.5

quay: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) on config-editor page

Red Hat Quay 3 Quay
affected: workaround, no fix available

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial
Assessed: 2 y ago (2024-09-16)

Exploit prediction

0.30% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 22% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	6.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD	3.1	6.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Affected products

Red Hat Red Hat Quay 3

Classification

Weakness

CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery

References

access.redhat.com /security/cve/CVE-2023-4959
vdb-entry, vendor-advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com /show_bug.cgi?id=2238908
issue-tracking, vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2023-4959
NVD CVE-2023-4959

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Summary