CVE-2024-8065
Published: 20 March 2025
Summary
CVE-2024-8065 is a high-severity CSRF (CWE-352) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 8.1 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 36.1th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
This vulnerability is AI-related — categorised as Enterprise AI Assistants; in the Other ATLAS/OWASP Terms risk domain.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-6919
Vulnerability details
A Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in version v1.4.1 of danswer-ai/danswer allows attackers to perform unauthorized actions in the context of the victim's browser. This includes connecting the victim's application with a malicious Slack Bot, inviting users, and deleting chats,…
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among other actions. The application does not implement any CSRF protection, making it susceptible to these attacks.
- CWE(s)
AI Security AnalysisAI
- AI Category
- Enterprise AI Assistants
- Risk Domain
- Other ATLAS/OWASP Terms
- OWASP Top 10 for LLMs 2025
- None mapped
- Classification Reason
- Matched keywords: ai
Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
The CSRF vulnerability in Danswer allows attackers to exploit the public-facing web application to perform unauthorized state-changing actions (e.g., connecting to malicious Slack bots, inviting users, deleting chats) on behalf of authenticated victims via forged requests from the victim's browser.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Awareness training educates users on avoiding untrusted links and actions that can be exploited via CSRF.
Requiring user re-entry of credentials for sensitive actions prevents automated forgery of requests without active user participation.
Security testing regimens explicitly include checks for missing or ineffective anti-CSRF protections in web applications.
Detects anomalous request patterns consistent with cross-site request forgery.