TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Aug 11, 2017
After the California nonprofit Free Law Project sounded the alarm on the subject, federal courts have fixed a “major security vulnerability” in PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records), the ABA Journal reports. Free Law Project found a cross site request forgery vulnerability, which put anyone signed into PACER at risk. Administrators of the site could have theoretically made purchases or file documents through an unwitting user’s PACER account, via the noted security flaw. The groups agree that there is no evidence this vulnerability was ever exploited. The Free Law Project has also made recommendations to the court to prevent future vulnerabilities in the system.