🛡️ GHSA-2f46-4xjm-73x5 — passbolt-api

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-79 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Passbolt API Stored XSS on first/last name during setup

Description

An administrator can craft a user with a malicious first name and last name, using a payload such as

```

<svg onload="confirm(document.domain)">'); ?></svg>

```

The user will then receive the invitation email and click on the setup link. The setup start page served by the server will fire the XSS.

Impact of issue

An administrator could use this exploit to edit the setup start page for a given user, for example, trick the user into installing another extension. Even though the severity of this issue in itself is high, the likelihood is low because the exploit will be visible in clear by the user in the email notification, and also requires an action from a malicious administrator.

Fix

Sanitize the firstname and lastname in the page that is used to trigger the extension setup process.

Additionally since v2.11 some default CSP are inserted in the server response headers to prevent inline-scripts or 3rd party domain scripts on pages served by the passbolt API. This is to cater for the case where the administrator has not set them up as part of the web server configuration.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs administrative privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

GHSA-2f46-4xjm-73x5 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

GHSA-2f46-4xjm-73x5 is recorded against 1 package.

  • passbolt/passbolt-api (fixed in 2.11.0)

Timeline and source

Published on 20 May 2024 and last revised on 5 December 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
github.com (Web)
www.passbolt.com (Web)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-79
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2024-05-20
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2024-12-05
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
passbolt/passbolt-api 2.11.0

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