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GHSA-V333-7H2P-5FHV

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-07-31 20:59 – Updated: 2025-07-09 15:00

Summary

ZITADEL has improper HTML sanitization in emails and Console UI

Details

Impact

ZITADEL uses HTML for emails and renders certain information such as usernames dynamically. That information can be entered by users or administrators. Due to a missing output sanitization, these emails could include malicious code. This may potentially lead to a threat where an attacker, without privileges, could send out altered notifications that are part of the registration processes. An attacker could create a malicious link, where the injected code would be rendered as part of the email.

During investigation of this issue a related issue was found and mitigated, where on the user's detail page the username was not sanitized and would also render HTML, giving an attacker the same vulnerability.

While it was possible to inject HTML including javascript, the execution of such scripts would be prevented by most email clients and the Content Security Policy in Console UI.

Patches

2.x versions are fixed on >= 2.58.1 2.57.x versions are fixed on >= 2.57.1 2.56.x versions are fixed on >= 2.56.2 2.55.x versions are fixed on >= 2.55.5 2.54.x versions are fixed on >= 2.54.8 2.53.x versions are fixed on >= 2.53.9 2.52.x versions are fixed on >= 2.52.9

Workarounds

There is no workaround since a patch is already available.

Questions

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory, please email us at security@zitadel.com

Credits

Thanks to Sushmita Poudel and David Underwood for reporting this.

Severity

4.3 (Medium)


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

6.9 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

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CVE-2024-41953 (GCVE-0-2024-41953)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-07-31 16:42 – Updated: 2024-08-01 13:48

Title

Zitadel improperly sanitizes HTML in emails and Console UI

Summary

Zitadel is an open source identity management system. ZITADEL uses HTML for emails and renders certain information such as usernames dynamically. That information can be entered by users or administrators. Due to a missing output sanitization, these emails could include malicious code. This may potentially lead to a threat where an attacker, without privileges, could send out altered notifications that are part of the registration processes. An attacker could create a malicious link, where the injected code would be rendered as part of the email. On the user's detail page, the username was also not sanitized and would also render HTML, giving an attacker the same vulnerability. While it was possible to inject HTML including javascript, the execution of such scripts would be prevented by most email clients and the Content Security Policy in Console UI. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.58.1, 2.57.1, 2.56.2, 2.55.5, 2.54.8 2.53.9, and 2.52.3.

Severity

4.3 (Medium)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-08-01 13:48 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 7634 records in the last 180 days details

References

15 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/security/advis…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/commit/0e1f99e…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/commit/38da602…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/commit/4b59cac…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/commit/c1a3fc7…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/commit/c353f82…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/commit/d04ac6d…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/commit/f846616…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/releases/tag/v2.52.3	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/releases/tag/v2.53.9	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/releases/tag/v2.54.8	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/releases/tag/v2.55.5	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/releases/tag/v2.56.2	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/releases/tag/v2.57.1	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/releases/tag/v2.58.1	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
zitadel	zitadel	Affected: >= 2.52.0, < 2.52.3 Affected: >= 2.53.0, < 2.53.9 Affected: >= 2.54.0, < 2.54.8 Affected: >= 2.55.0, < 2.55.5 Affected: >= 2.56.0, < 2.56.2 Affected: >= 2.57.0, < 2.57.1 Affected: >= 2.58.0, < 2.58.1

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    "datePublished": "2024-07-31T16:42:33.125Z",
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    "dateUpdated": "2024-08-01T13:48:32.705Z",
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Sightings

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Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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