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🛡️ CVE-2024-41675 — ckan

🟡 CVSS 6.8 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-79 OSV
6.8
CVSS Score
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Description

CKAN has Cross-site Scripting vector in the Datatables view plugin

The [Datatables view plugin](https://docs.ckan.org/en/2.10/maintaining/data-viewer.html#datatables-view) did not properly escape record data coming from the DataStore, leading to a potential XSS vector.

Impact

Sites running CKAN >= 2.7.0 with the datatables_view plugin activated. This is a plugin included in CKAN core, that not activated by default but it is widely used to preview tabular data.

Patches

This vulnerability has been fixed in CKAN 2.10.5 and 2.11.0

Workarounds

Prevent importing of tabular files to the DataStore via DataPusher, XLoader,etc, at least those published from untrusted sources.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Attack requirements: None — no deployment-specific condition has to hold.
  • Privileges required: Low — an ordinary user account is enough.
  • User interaction: Passive — a victim action is involved, but not a deliberate one.
  • Confidentiality impact: None.
  • Integrity impact: None.
  • Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-41675 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-2024-41675 is recorded against 1 package.

  • ckan (from 2.7.0 up to 2.10.5)

Timeline and source

Published on 7 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from OSV.

References

github.com (Web)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
pypi.org (Package)
github.com (Advisory)

Other advisories for this package

ckan has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-79: Cross-site Scripting (XSS)) in other software:

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 6.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N
CWE CWE-79
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2026-07-07
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-07-07

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
ckan 2.7.0 2.10.5

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