CVE-2023-47635 — Decidim is a participatory democracy framework

Decidim is a participatory democracy framework. Starting in version 0.23.0 and prior to versions 0.27.5 and 0.28.0, the CSRF authenticity token check is disabled for the questionnaire templates preview. The issue does not imply a serious security thread as you need to have access

01What is this vulnerability?

Decidim is a participatory democracy framework. Starting in version 0.23.0 and prior to versions 0.27.5 and 0.28.0, the CSRF authenticity token check is disabled for the questionnaire templates preview. The issue does not imply a serious security thread as you need to have access also to the session cookie in order to see this resource. This URL does not allow modifying the resource but it may…

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
decidim	decidim	>= 0.23.0, < 0.27.5

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

Ask SARA in chat to draft a starting detection for this CVE in your stack of choice.

07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2024-02-20T16:45:39.305Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-22T13:25:39.658Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/decidim/decidim/security/advisories/GHSA-f3qm-vfc3-jg6v
• github.com — https://github.com/decidim/decidim/pull/11743
• github.com — https://github.com/decidim/decidim/pull/6247
• github.com — https://github.com/decidim/decidim/commit/5542227be66e3b6d7530f5b536069bce093766…
• github.com — https://github.com/decidim/decidim/commit/57a4b467787448307b5d9b01ce6e2c8502e121…
• github.com — https://github.com/decidim/decidim/blob/3187bdfd40ea1c57c2c12512b09a7fec0b2bed08…
• github.com — https://github.com/decidim/decidim/releases/tag/v0.27.5
• github.com — https://github.com/decidim/decidim/releases/tag/v0.28.0