Report: Ultimate Guide: CVE-2026-40458 - Cross-Site Request Forgery in PAC4J

Report: Ultimate Guide: CVE-2026-40458 - Cross-Site Request Forgery in PAC4J

CVE ID :CVE-2026-40458 Published : April 17, 2026, 2:16 p.m. | 1 hour, 2 minutes ago Description :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 Severity: 7.0 | HIGH Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more...

CVE Details

Severity
HIGH
Published
April 17, 2026
Impact: CSRF