TI-2023-12288 Aliases CVE-2023-27578

Galaxy vulnerable to unauthorized modification of pages/visualizations due to insufficient permission check

MEDIUM 47CWE-284Published 2023-03-20 · Updated 2025-02-25

Key facts

Attack vector: Network
Privileges required: None
User interaction: None
Attack complexity: Low
Impact type: Security bypass
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: None · High · High
Fix status: Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-284.

Summary

Galaxy is an open-source platform for data analysis. All supported versions of Galaxy are affected prior to 22.01, 22.05, and 23.0 are affected by an insufficient permission check. Unsupported versions are likely affected as far back as the functionality of Visualizations/Pages exists. Due to this issue, an attacker can modify or delete any Galaxy Visualization or Galaxy Page given they know the encoded ID of it. Additionally, they can copy or import any Galaxy Visualization given they know the encoded ID of it. Patches are available for versions 22.01, 22.05, and 23.0. For the changes to take effect, you must restart all Galaxy server processes. There are no supported workarounds.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV

EPSS 0.00768 55th percentileScored 2026-11-07

Fix Fixed galaxy (galaxyproject): 22.01

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation: None
Automatable: Yes
Technical impact: Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
galaxyproject	galaxy	before 22.01	22.01	Patch available	CNA

galaxy Vendorgalaxyproject Affected before 22.01 Fixed in 22.01 Patch available CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPE	Versions	Role	Vendor
cpe:2.3:a:galaxyproject:galaxy::::::::	before 22.01	Vulnerable	galaxyproject

cpe:2.3:a:galaxyproject:galaxy:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions before 22.01 Vulnerable ·galaxyproject

Remediation

Fix · CNA galaxy (galaxyproject) Fixed in 22.01

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2023-27578

References

Patch 1

https://github.com/galaxyproject/galaxy/security/advisories/GHSA-j8q2-r4g5-f22j

Other 3

TI-2023-22903 Galaxy vulnerable to Server Side Request Forgery during data imports CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.3
TI-2022-07530 Arbitrary file access in the Galaxy data analysis platform CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.6
TI-2015-07990 galaxy-data-resource Command Line Template injection CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
TI-2024-28338 Possible Data Tampering & Loss of Public Datasets in Galaxy CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1
TI-2024-28333 Stored Cross Site Scripting (Stored XSS) in Galaxy CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.6
TI-2018-15916 The Galaxy Project Galaxy version v14.10 contains a CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of… CVSS 3.0MEDIUM 6.1

Sources

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