GHSA-gwxv-jv83-6qjr

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Source
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-gwxv-jv83-6qjr
Import Source
https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2023/06/GHSA-gwxv-jv83-6qjr/GHSA-gwxv-jv83-6qjr.json
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Published
2023-06-06T00:45:18Z
Modified
2023-11-11T05:24:22.898607Z
Severity
  • 5.4 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
JStachio XSS vulnerability: Unescaped single quotes
Details

Impact

Description:

JStachio fails to escape single quotes ' in HTML, allowing an attacker to inject malicious code.

Reproduction Steps:

Use the following template code:

<div attr='{{value}}'></div>

Set the value variable to ' onblur='alert(1).

public class Escaping {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Model model = new Model("' onblur='alert(1)");
        String result = AttributeTemplate.of().execute(model);
        System.out.println(result);
    }

    @JStache(template = "<div attr='{{value}}'></div>",
            name="AttributeTemplate")
    @JStacheConfig(contentType= Html.class)
    public static class Model {

        public final String value;

        public Model(String value) {
            this.value = value;
        }

        public String getValue() {
            return value;
        }
    }
}

Expected Result: The resulting output should have properly escaped the single quotes and not execute the injected JavaScript code.

Actual Result: The resulting output is vulnerable and renders as follows:

<div attr='' onblur='alert(1)'></div>

Impact and Risk:

This vulnerability can be exploited by an attacker to execute arbitrary JavaScript code in the context of other users visiting pages that use this template engine. This can lead to various consequences, including session hijacking, defacement of web pages, theft of sensitive information, or even the propagation of malware.

Proposed Solution:

To mitigate this vulnerability, the template engine should properly escape special characters, including single quotes. Common practice is to escape ' as &#39.

### Patches -

Workarounds

As long as users stick with double quotes " for HTML attributes, they should not be affected.

References

For instance, Rocker's general purpose HTML escaping

Database specific
{
    "nvd_published_at": "2023-05-30T22:15:10Z",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-79"
    ],
    "severity": "MODERATE",
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2023-06-06T00:45:18Z"
}
References

Affected packages

Maven / io.jstach:jstachio

Package

Name
io.jstach:jstachio
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Purl
pkg:maven/io.jstach/jstachio

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.0.1

Affected versions

0.*

0.6.0
0.7.0
0.8.0
0.8.1
0.9.0
0.9.1
0.9.2
0.9.3
0.10.0
0.10.1
0.11.0
0.11.1
0.12.0
0.13.0
0.14.0
0.15.0
0.16.0
0.17.0
0.18.0
0.19.0

1.*

1.0.0