🛡️ CVE-2022-0087 — keystone

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-79 NVD
8.0
CVSS Score
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Description

Reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability

This security advisory relates to a capability for an attacker to exploit a reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability when using the @keystone-6/auth package.

Impact

The vulnerability can impact users of the administration user interface when following an untrusted link to the signin or init page.

This is a targeted attack and may present itself in the form of phishing and or chained in conjunction with some other vulnerability.

Vulnerability mitigation

Please upgrade to @keystone-6/auth >= 1.0.2, where this vulnerability has been closed.

If you are using @keystone-next/auth, we strongly recommend you upgrade to @keystone-6.

Workarounds

If for some reason you cannot upgrade the dependencies in software, you could alternatively

  • disable the administration user interface, or
  • if using a reverse-proxy, strip query parameters when accessing the administration interface

References

https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/xss/

Thanks to Shivansh Khari (@Shivansh-Khari) for discovering and reporting this vulnerability

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity low, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2022-0087 is classified as CWE-79: Cross-site Scripting (XSS). User-supplied data is written into a page without escaping, so attacker script runs in the browser of anyone who views it.

Affected software

CVE-2022-0087 is recorded against 3 packages.

  • @keystone-6/auth
  • @keystone-next/auth
  • keystone (fixed in 1.0.2)

Timeline and source

Published on 12 January 2022 and last revised on 8 November 2023. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com (Web)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
huntr.dev (Web)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE CWE-79
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2022-01-12
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2023-11-08

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
@keystone-6/auth — —
@keystone-next/auth — —
keystone — 1.0.2

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