🛡️ GHSA-f36p-42jv-8rh2 — lithium

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

Description

Lithium vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting in provided Swagger-UI

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A XSS vulnerability in the provided (outdated) Swagger-UI is exploitable in applications using lithium with Swagger-UI enabled.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](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Content-Security-Policy).

References

  • https://www.vidocsecurity.com/blog/hacking-swagger-ui-from-xss-to-account-takeovers/

Credits

We thank [Mohit Kumar](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohit-kumar-4ab6b3bb) for 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 unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability none.

Weakness class

GHSA-f36p-42jv-8rh2 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-f36p-42jv-8rh2 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • com.wire.bots:lithium
  • com.wire:lithium (fixed in 3.4.2)

Timeline and source

Published on 30 September 2022 and last revised on 28 November 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE CWE-79
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-09-30
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2024-11-28
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
com.wire:lithium — 3.4.2
com.wire.bots:lithium — —

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