GHSA-cm22-4g7w-348p

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Source
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cm22-4g7w-348p
Import Source
https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2024/09/GHSA-cm22-4g7w-348p/GHSA-cm22-4g7w-348p.json
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Published
2024-09-10T19:42:33Z
Modified
2024-11-18T16:27:11Z
Severity
  • 5.0 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L CVSS Calculator
  • 2.3 (Low) CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L CVSS Calculator
Summary
serve-static vulnerable to template injection that can lead to XSS
Details

Impact

passing untrusted user input - even after sanitizing it - to redirect() may execute untrusted code

Patches

this issue is patched in serve-static 1.16.0

Workarounds

users are encouraged to upgrade to the patched version of express, but otherwise can workaround this issue by making sure any untrusted inputs are safe, ideally by validating them against an explicit allowlist

Details

successful exploitation of this vector requires the following:

  1. The attacker MUST control the input to response.redirect()
  2. express MUST NOT redirect before the template appears
  3. the browser MUST NOT complete redirection before:
  4. the user MUST click on the link in the template
Database specific
{
    "nvd_published_at": "2024-09-10T15:15:17Z",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-79"
    ],
    "severity": "LOW",
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2024-09-10T19:42:33Z"
}
References

Affected packages

npm / serve-static

Package

Affected ranges

Type
SEMVER
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.16.0

npm / serve-static

Package

Affected ranges

Type
SEMVER
Events
Introduced
2.0.0
Fixed
2.1.0