CVE-2022-43983

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Publication date:

25/11/2022

Last modified:

29/04/2025

Description

Browsershot version 3.57.2 allows an external attacker to remotely obtain arbitrary local files. This is possible because the application does not validate that the HTML content passed to the Browsershot::html method does not contain URL&#39;s that use the file:// protocol.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 8.20 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): Required
Scope (S): Changed
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): Low
Availability (A): None