Cross-Site Request Forgery on PingFederate Local Identity Profiles Endpoint.
The PingFederate Local Identity Profiles '/pf/idprofile.ping' endpoint is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) through crafted GET requests.
- Published
- Apr 25, 2023
- Updated
- Jun 17, 2026
- EPSS
- 0.2% · 7th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-352
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Report tools
Action score
35
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 35 / 40 · 8.8 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 0.2%
CISA SSVC decision
- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- no
- Technical impact
- partial
Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.
CNA vs NVD score
- NVD
- 8.8
- CNA · Ping Identity
- 6.4
- 2.4 point gap
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H/E:H/RL:U/RC:C
The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.
Noroxi analysis
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We use this product, ask for helpAffected systems
| Vendor | Product | CPE |
|---|---|---|
| pingidentity | pingfederate | cpe:2.3:a:pingidentity:pingfederate |
Affected versions
NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.
- pingidentity pingfederate10.3.0 and later · up to 10.3.11 inclusive
- pingidentity pingfederate11.0.0 and later · up to 11.0.6 inclusive
- pingidentity pingfederate11.1.0 and later · up to 11.1.5 inclusive
- pingidentity pingfederate11.2.0 and later · up to 11.2.2 inclusive
Versions reported by the vendor
Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (Ping Identity). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.
Ping Identity PingFederate
- 10.3.0 and later · before 10.3.0*affected
- 10.3.11 and later · up to and including 10.3.11affected
- 11.0.0 and later · before 11.0.0*affected
- 11.0.6 and later · up to and including 11.0.6affected
- 11.1.0 and later · before 11.1.0*affected
- 11.1.5 and later · up to and including 11.1.5affected
- 11.2.0 and later · before 11.2.0*affected
- 11.2.2 and later · up to and including 11.2.2affected
Same product
pingidentity: all recordsOther highest-scoring records for the same primary product.
- CVE-2023-40545PingFederate OAuth client_secret_jwt Authentication Bypass39Monitor
- CVE-2023-37283Authentication Bypass via HTML Form & Identifier First Adapter39Monitor
- CVE-2021-40329The Authentication API in Ping Identity PingFederate before 10.3 mishandles certain aspects of external password management.39Monitor
- CVE-2023-39219Admin Console Denial of Service via Java class enumeration30Monitor
- CVE-2021-41770Ping Identity PingFederate before 10.3.1 mishandles pre-parsing validation, leading to an XXE attack that can achieve XML file disclosure.30Monitor
- CVE-2022-40723Configuration-based MFA Bypass in PingID RADIUS PCV.26Monitor
Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.
Exploit status
No known public exploit
No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.
Research context
For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.
Timeline
From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.
No dated events beyond publication.
FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).
Patch and commit links
Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.
No commit or PR link among the references.
Credits
All researchersFinders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.
No credits in the CNA record.
Variant candidates
Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.
No nightly-computed relations.
Chain candidates
An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.
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Bug bounty scope
The product’s vendor appears in a public program. Matched by name; verify the scope text in the program.
Technical details
Attack conditions
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
- No account or password is required.
- A user must open a link or visit a page.
- No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- high · data can be read
- Integrity
- high · data or configuration can be modified
- Availability
- high · the service can be disrupted
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality impact
- High
- Integrity impact
- High
- Availability impact
- High
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
nvd-primary
Root cause
State-changing requests rely on the session cookie the browser sends automatically; nothing verifies that the request came from the user’s own page.
The bug in code
The whole CWE-352 classA representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.
Vulnerable
app.use(session({ cookie: { httpOnly: true } }));app.post("/account/address", updateAddress);Fixed
app.use(session({ cookie: { httpOnly: true, sameSite: "lax" } }));app.post("/account/address", csrfProtection, updateAddress);Attack context
MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.
Change log
No changes recorded on tracked fields yet. Score, KEV, exploit maturity and fix status changes appear here.
References
Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.