GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Go
GHSA-w9hf-35q4-vcjw nosurf vulnerable to CSRF due to non-functional same-origin request checks
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2025-46721
- Ecosystem
- Go
- Packages
- github.com/justinas/nosurf
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-352
- Reviewed
- 2025-05-14
Affected packages
• Go github.com/justinas/nosurf: < 1.2.0 → fixed in 1.2.0
Description
Impact
This vulnerability allows an attacker who controls content on the target site, or on a subdomain of the target site (either via XSS, or otherwise) to bypass Cross-Site Request Forgery checks and issue requests on user's behalf.
Details
Due to misuse of the Go `net/http` library, nosurf categorizes all incoming requests as plain-text HTTP requests, in which case the `Referer` header is not checked to have the same origin as the target webpage.
If the attacker has control over HTML contents on either the target website (e.g. `example.com`), or on a website hosted on a subdomain of the target (e.g. `attacker.example.com`), they will also be able to manipulate cookies set for the target website. By acquiring the secret CSRF token from the cookie, or overriding the cookie with a new token known to the attacker, `attacker.example.com` is able to craft cross-site requests to `example.com`.
Patches
A patch for the issue was released in nosurf 1.2.0.
Workarounds
In lieu of upgrading to a patched version of nosurf, users may additionally use another HTTP middleware to ensure that a non-safe HTTP request is coming from the same origin (e.g. by requiring a `Sec-Fetch-Site: same-origin` header in the request).
References
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rq77-p4h8-4crw
https://github.com/justinas/nosurf-cve-2025-46721
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-46721
https://github.com/justinas/nosurf/releases/tag/v1.2.0
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2025-46721 nosurf is cross-site request forgery (CSRF) protection middleware for Go. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery weakness
References
- https://github.com/justinas/nosurf/security/advisories/GHSA-w9hf-35q4-vcjw web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-46721 advisory
- https://github.com/justinas/nosurf/commit/ec9bb776d8e5ba9e906b6eb70428f4e7b009feee web
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rq77-p4h8-4crw advisory
- https://github.com/justinas/nosurf package
- https://github.com/justinas/nosurf-cve-2025-46721 web
- https://github.com/justinas/nosurf/releases/tag/v1.2.0 web