apollo-portal has potential CSRF issue

Impact

A low-privileged user can create a special web page. If an authenticated portal admin visits this page, the page can silently send a request to assign new roles for that user without any confirmation from the Portal admin.

Patches

Cookie SameSite strategy was set to Lax in #4664 and was released in v2.1.0.

Workarounds

To fix the potential issue without upgrading, simply follow the advice that does not visit unknown source pages.

References

Apollo Security Guidence

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