Description

@dependencytrack/frontend is a Single Page Application (SPA) used in Dependency-Track, an open source Component Analysis platform that allows organizations to identify and reduce risk in the software supply chain. 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. 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, Recommendation, or References. The payload will be executed for users with the `VIEW_PORTFOLIO` permission when browsing to the modified vulnerability's page. Alternatively, malicious JavaScript could be introduced via any of the vulnerability databases mirrored by Dependency-Track. However, this attack vector is highly unlikely, and the maintainers of Dependency-Track are not aware of any occurrence of this happening. Note that the `Vulnerability Details` element of the `Audit Vulnerabilities` tab in the project view is not affected. The issue has been fixed in frontend version 4.6.1.

Severity

 

CVSS Version 3.x CVSS Version 2.0

CVSS 3.x Severity and Metrics:

CNA:  GitHub, Inc.

Base Score:  5.4 MEDIUM

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

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CVSS 2.0 Severity and Metrics:

NIST: NVD

Base Score: N/A

NVD assessment not yet provided.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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Hyperlink	Resource
https://docs.dependencytrack.org/changelog/	Release Notes  Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/DependencyTrack/frontend/security/advisories/GHSA-c33w-pm52-mqvf	Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/showdownjs/showdown/wiki/Markdown%27s-XSS-Vulnerability-%28and-how-to-mitigate-it%29

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID	CWE Name	Source
CWE-79	Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')	NIST   GitHub, Inc.

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Change History

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CVE Modified by GitHub, Inc. 11/06/2023 10:50:27 PM

Action	Type	Old Value	New Value
Added	Reference		GitHub, Inc. https://github.com/showdownjs/showdown/wiki/Markdown%27s-XSS-Vulnerability-%28and-how-to-mitigate-it%29 [No types assigned]
Removed	Reference	GitHub, Inc. https://github.com/showdownjs/showdown/wiki/Markdown's-XSS-Vulnerability-(and-how-to-mitigate-it)

Initial Analysis by NIST 10/28/2022 3:24:54 PM

Action	Type	Old Value	New Value
Added	CPE Configuration		OR *cpe:2.3:a:owasp:dependency-track_frontend:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 4.6.1
Added	CVSS V3.1		NIST AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Added	CWE		NIST CWE-79
Changed	Reference Type	https://docs.dependencytrack.org/changelog/ No Types Assigned	https://docs.dependencytrack.org/changelog/ Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
Changed	Reference Type	https://github.com/DependencyTrack/frontend/security/advisories/GHSA-c33w-pm52-mqvf No Types Assigned	https://github.com/DependencyTrack/frontend/security/advisories/GHSA-c33w-pm52-mqvf Third Party Advisory
Changed	Reference Type	https://github.com/showdownjs/showdown/wiki/Markdown's-XSS-Vulnerability-(and-how-to-mitigate-it) No Types Assigned	https://github.com/showdownjs/showdown/wiki/Markdown's-XSS-Vulnerability-(and-how-to-mitigate-it) Exploit, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory