Impact
A XSS vulnerability in the provided (outdated) Swagger-UI is exploitable in applications using lithium with Swagger-UI enabled.
This allows an attacker gain Remote Code Execution (RCE) and potentially exfiltrate secrets in the context of this swagger session.
Patches
The used swagger-ui was updated by switching to the latest version of dropwizard-swagger in 8b9b406d608fe482ec0e7adf8705834bca92d7df
Workarounds
The risk of injected external content can be reduced by setting up a Content-Security-Policy.
References
- https://www.vidocsecurity.com/blog/hacking-swagger-ui-from-xss-to-account-takeovers/
Credits
We thank Mohit Kumar for reporting this vulnerability!
Miggo AI