Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessLure authenticated Hub user to malicious page
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ExploitBrowser auto-sends forged state-changing request
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ExecutionBypass CSRF protection via header handling
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ImpactChange resource state silently
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V3 - Web Frontend Security Anti-CSRF tokens, SameSite cookies
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Initial Access The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires a victim with an active, authenticated KNIME Business Hub session (prior to 1.19.0) to be induced into passive interaction with attacker-controlled content (UI:P), at which point the browser submits a forged state-changing request that the Hub's CSRF prevention fails to reject. The vendor ties the weakness to handling of the X-Forwarded-For header - the documented workaround is to place an API gateway/firewall in front of the Hub that strips X-Forwarded-For from all incoming requests. Limiting factors: the target user must be logged in and must be lured into triggering the request; impact is restricted to low-integrity resource-state changes with no confidentiality or availability effect; and deployments already behind a gateway that removes X-Forwarded-For are protected. The only complete fix stated by the vendor is upgrading to 1.19.0 or later. |
| Impact | This is a medium-severity CSRF flaw (CWE-352) with a vendor-supplied CVSS 4.0 base score of 5.3, and the real-world signals point to a low-to-moderate, non-urgent priority rather than a critical one. The 4.0 vector (AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P) indicates network reach, low complexity, no attacker privileges, and passive user interaction, but impact is confined to low integrity only (VI:L) with no confidentiality or availability impact (VC:N/VA:N) and no scope change (SC:N/SI:N/SA:N) - consistent with a resource-state change rather than code execution or data theft. No EPSS score, CISA KEV listing, or exploit/PoC reference is present in the input, so there is no evidence of active or likely imminent exploitation. The vuln.today decision label is 'this_month,' aligning with routine patching rather than emergency action. One notable tension: the description characterizes the attacker as 'an authenticated attacker,' whereas the CVSS 4.0 vector sets PR:N (no attacker privileges) - in CSRF this typically reflects that the victim must be authenticated while the attacker needs no account, but the wording is ambiguous and should be verified with the KNIME advisory before relying on an authentication assumption. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker lures a user who holds an active authenticated KNIME Business Hub session into viewing attacker-controlled web content, which silently causes the user's browser to submit a forged, state-changing request to the Hub. Because CSRF prevention can be bypassed (the vendor's workaround centers on stripping the X-Forwarded-For header), the request is accepted and a resource's state is changed without the user noticing. No public exploit identified at time of analysis; exploitation requires passive user interaction (UI:P) but low complexity otherwise. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 22, 2026
KNIME Business Hub deployments prior to 1.19.0 contain a broken CSRF protection mechanism (CWE-352) that lets an attacker change the state of resources on behalf of a logged-in user without that user noticing. Exploitation requires the victim to have an active, authenticated Hub session and to be lured into passive interaction with attacker-controlled content, after which the browser's forged state-changing request is not rejected; impact is limited to low-integrity modifications with no confidentiality or availability effect. The vendor released a fix in version 1.19.0, and no public exploit code or confirmed active exploitation was identified at time of analysis; the only complete remedy stated by the vendor is upgrading to 1.19.0 or later.
RemediationAI
Upgrade KNIME Business Hub to version 1.19.0 or later, which the vendor describes as the only complete fix; consult https://www.knime.com/security/advisories for the vendor's patch guidance and rollout details. Where upgrading cannot be performed immediately, the vendor's documented workaround is to place an API gateway or firewall in front of KNIME Business Hub configured to remove the X-Forwarded-For header from all incoming requests - a compensating control whose trade-off is that the Hub will no longer receive client IP forwarding information, which can affect logging, auditing or IP-based policy behaviour that relies on that header. Because exploitation requires a victim to hold an active authenticated session and to be drawn into passive interaction with attacker-controlled content, reducing the window of standing privileged sessions and restricting where Hub traffic can originate also limits exposure, though the vendor's only stated complete remedy remains the upgrade.
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Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
CWE-352 (cross-site request forgery) covers failures to verify that a state-changing request actually originated from the legitimate user's own session in the application - typically the absence or incorrect validation of an anti-CSRF token, or a validation scheme that can be bypassed. In KNIME Business Hub prior to 1.19.0 the CSRF prevention can be defeated, and the vendor links the weakness to handling of the X-Forwarded-For header: the documented workaround is an API gateway or firewall in front of the Hub that removes X-Forwarded-For from all incoming requests, which indicates the protection logic depends on request-origin information derived from that header. CPE data identifies the affected product as knime:knime_business_hub, with EUVD listing the affected range as versions from 0 up to but not including 1.19.0. The assessed CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N) confirms network-reachable exploitation with no attacker privileges, requiring a victim to be induced into interaction (UI:R), and consequences confined to limited integrity impact. The precise request-level trigger conditions are not described in the available sources.
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Severity by source
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/U:Green
CSRF needs no attacker privileges (PR:N) but relies on victim browser interaction (UI:R); network-reachable and low-complexity, with only limited integrity impact and no confidentiality or availability effect.
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CVSS VectorVendor: KNIME
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1DescriptionCVE.org
A flaw in the cross-site request forgery (CSRF) prevention of KNIME Business Hub prior to version 1.19.0 allows an authenticated attacker to perform a CSRF attack with passive user interaction. This means the state of a resource could be changed without the user noticing. As a workaround, an API gateway for firewall in front of KNIME Business Hub could remove the X-Forwaded-For header from all incoming requests.
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Attack Technique
Cross-Site Request Forgery exploits the automatic credential inclusion behavior of web browsers.
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