CVE-2024-28100 (GCVE-0-2024-28100)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-09-02 16:10 – Updated: 2024-09-03 13:48
VLAI
Title
Stored Cross-site Scripting leading to arbitrary actions taken on behalf of users in elabftw
Summary
eLabFTW is an open source electronic lab notebook for research labs. By uploading specially crafted files, a regular user can create a circumstance where a visitor's browser runs arbitrary JavaScript code in the context of the eLabFTW application. This can be triggered by the visitor viewing a list of experiments. Viewing this allows the malicious script to act on behalf of the visitor in any way, including the creation of API keys for persistence, or other options normally available to the user. If the user viewing the page has the sysadmin role in eLabFTW, the script can act as a sysadmin (including system configuration and extensive user management roles). Users are advised to upgrade to at least version 5.0.0. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.
Severity
8.9 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-09-03 13:38 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Assigner
GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 7868 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
elabftw elabftw Affected: < 5.0.0
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elabftw elabftw Affected: 0 , < 5.0.0 (custom)
    cpe:2.3:a:elabftw:elabftw:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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