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CVE ID

CVE-2022-39350

GHSA ID

GHSA-c33w-pm52-mqvf

EPSS Score

0.32353%

CWE

CWE-79

Published

10/25/2022

Updated

1/30/2023

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JavaScript

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CVE-2022-39350: @dependencytrack/frontend vulnerable to Persistent Cross-Site-Scripting via Vulnerability Details

Description

Due to the common practice of providing vulnerability details in markdown format, the Dependency-Track frontend renders them using the JavaScript library Showdown. Showdown does not have any XSS countermeasures built in, and versions before 4.6.1 of the Dependency-Track frontend did not encode or sanitize Showdown's output. This made it possible for arbitrary JavaScript included in vulnerability details via HTML attributes to be executed in context of the frontend.

Impact

Actors with the VULNERABILITY_MANAGEMENT permission can exploit this weakness by creating or editing a custom vulnerability and providing XSS payloads in any of the following fields:

Description
Details
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References

The payload will be executed for users with the VIEW_PORTFOLIO permission when browsing to the modified vulnerability's page, for example:

https://dtrack.example.com/vulnerabilities/INTERNAL/INT-jd8u-e8tl-8lwu

Alternatively, malicious JavaScript could be introduced via any of the vulnerability databases mirrored by Dependency-Track (NVD, GitHub Advisories, OSV, OSS Index, VulnDB). However, this attack vector is highly unlikely, and the team is not aware of any occurrence of this happening.

Note The Vulnerability Details element of the Audit Vulnerabilities tab in the project view is not affected.

Patches

The issue has been fixed in frontend version 4.6.1.

Credit

Thanks to GitHub user Waterstraal for finding and responsibly disclosing the issue.

(GitHub Advisory)

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CVSS Score

3.1

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Basic Information

CVE ID

CVE-2022-39350

GHSA ID

GHSA-c33w-pm52-mqvf

EPSS Score

0.32353%

CWE

CWE-79

Published

10/25/2022

Updated

1/30/2023

KEV Status

Technology

JavaScript

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GHSA ID

EPSS Score

CWE

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Updated

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Technology

Technical Details

CVSS Vector

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

Package Name	Ecosystem	Vulnerable Versions	First Patched Version
@dependencytrack/frontend	npm	< 4.6.1	4.6.1

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Root Cause Analysis

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