CVE-2024-36109

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Publication date:

28/05/2024

Last modified:

29/05/2024

Description

CoCalc is web-based software that enables collaboration in research, teaching, and scientific publishing. In affected versions the markdown parser allows `` tags to be included which execute when published. This issue has been addressed in commit `419862a9c9879c`. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Impact

Vector 3.x

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

Base Score: 7.60 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): Required
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): Low

Base Score 3.x

7.60

Severity 3.x

HIGH

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

https://github.com/sagemathinc/cocalc/commit/419862a9c9879c
https://github.com/sagemathinc/cocalc/security/advisories/GHSA-8w44-hggw-p5rf