CVE-2024-49362 (GCVE-0-2024-49362)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-11-14 17:37 – Updated: 2024-11-14 21:39
VLAI
Title
Remote Code Execution on click of <a> Link in markdown preview
Summary
Joplin is a free, open source note taking and to-do application. Joplin-desktop has a vulnerability that leads to remote code execution (RCE) when a user clicks on an <a> link within untrusted notes. The issue arises due to insufficient sanitization of <a> tag attributes introduced by the Mermaid. This vulnerability allows the execution of untrusted HTML content within the Electron window, which has full access to Node.js APIs, enabling arbitrary shell command execution.
Severity
7.7 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-11-14 21:38 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-94 - Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
Assigner
GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 7886 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
laurent22 joplin Affected: < 3.1
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joplinapp joplin Affected: 0 , < 3.1 (custom)
    cpe:2.3:a:joplinapp:joplin:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*
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