wireapp/lithium · Security
Lithium vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting in provided Swagger-UI
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-f36p-42jv-8rh2
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 8.1 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- CVSS v3
- 8.1 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Description
Impact
A XSS vulnerability in the provided (outdated) Swagger-UI is exploitable in applications using lithium with Swagger-UI enabled. This allows an attacker gain Remote Code Execution (RCE) and potentially exfiltrate secrets in the context of this swagger session.
Patches
The used swagger-ui was updated by switching to the latest version of dropwizard-swagger in 8b9b406d608fe482ec0e7adf8705834bca92d7df
Workarounds
The risk of injected external content can be reduced by setting up a Content-Security-Policy.
References
Credits
We thank Mohit Kumar for reporting this vulnerability!
CWEs
- CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')