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CVE-2023-43091 (GCVE-0-2023-43091)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-11-17 12:25 – Updated: 2024-11-18 16:39

Title

Gnome-maps: gnome maps is vulnerable to a code injection attack (similar to xss) via its service.json

Summary

A flaw was found in GNOME Maps, which is vulnerable to a code injection attack via its service.json configuration file. If the configuration file is malicious, it may execute arbitrary code.

Severity

9.8 (Critical)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-11-18 16:37 UTC

CWE

CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Assigner

fedora redhat root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2239091	issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-maps/-/commi…
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-maps/-/issues/588

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE status
		Affected: 43.0 , ≤ 45.beta (custom)
gnome_maps	gnome_maps	Affected: 43.0 , ≤ 45_beta (custom) cpe:2.3:a:gnome_maps:gnome_maps::::::::

Date Public

2023-09-15 00:00

Credits

Red Hat would like to thank Michael Evans for reporting this issue.

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FKIE_CVE-2023-43091

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-11-17 13:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 06:25

Severity

9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

A flaw was found in GNOME Maps, which is vulnerable to a code injection attack via its service.json configuration file. If the configuration file is malicious, it may execute arbitrary code.

References

URL	Tags
patrick@puiterwijk.org	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2239091	Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
patrick@puiterwijk.org	https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-maps/-/commit/d26cd774d524404ef7784e6808f551de83de4bea	Patch
patrick@puiterwijk.org	https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-maps/-/issues/588	Exploit, Issue Tracking

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	gnome	gnome-maps	*
	gnome	gnome-maps	*

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      "source": "patrick@puiterwijk.org",
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GHSA-8JRF-4F89-74JX

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-11-17 15:30 – Updated: 2024-11-17 15:30

Details

A flaw was found in GNOME Maps, which is vulnerable to a code injection attack via its service.json configuration file. If the configuration file is malicious, it may execute arbitrary code.

Severity

9.8 (Critical)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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GSD-2023-43091

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:20

Details

** RESERVED ** This candidate has been reserved by an organization or individual that will use it when announcing a new security problem. When the candidate has been publicized, the details for this candidate will be provided.

Aliases

CVE-2023-43091

Aliases

CVE-2023-43091

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UBUNTU-CVE-2023-43091 (CVE-2023-43091)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2024-11-17 13:15 – Updated: 2025-10-24 05:02 – Source website

Details

A flaw was found in GNOME Maps, which is vulnerable to a code injection attack via its service.json configuration file. If the configuration file is malicious, it may execute arbitrary code.

Severity

9.8 (Critical)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-43091	REPORT
	https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-maps/-/issues/588	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-43091	REPORT

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