CVE-2021-32677 log

Source
Severity Medium
Remote Yes
Type Cross-site request forgery
Description 
FastAPI versions lower than 0.65.2 that used cookies for authentication in path operations that received JSON payloads sent by browsers were vulnerable to a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attack.

In versions lower than 0.65.2, FastAPI would try to read the request payload as JSON even if the content-type header sent was not set to application/json or a compatible JSON media type (e.g. application/geo+json).

So, a request with a content type of text/plain containing JSON data would be accepted and the JSON data would be extracted.

But requests with content type text/plain are exempt from CORS preflights, for being considered Simple requests. So, the browser would execute them right away including cookies, and the text content could be a JSON string that would be parsed and accepted by the FastAPI application.
Group Package Affected Fixed Severity Status Ticket
AVG-2060 python-fastapi 0.65.1-1 0.65.2-1 Medium Fixed
Date Advisory Group Package Severity Type
01 Jul 2021 ASA-202107-6 AVG-2060 python-fastapi Medium cross-site request forgery
References 
https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/security/advisories/GHSA-8h2j-cgx8-6xv7
https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/2118
https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/commit/fa7e3c996edf2d5482fff8f9d890ac2390dede4d
Notes 
Workaround
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To mitigate the issue, it would be possible to add a middleware or a dependency that checks the content-type header and aborts the request if it is not application/json or another JSON compatible content type.