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XSS Vulnerability in Markdown Editor

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Jun 16, 2022 in inventree/InvenTree • Updated Jan 12, 2023

Package

pip inventree (pip)

Affected versions

< 0.7.3

Patched versions

None

Description

Impact

InvenTree uses EasyMDE for displaying markdown text in various places (e.g. for the various "notes" fields associated with various models).

By default, EasyMDE does not sanitize input data, and it is possible for malicious code to be injected into the markdown editor, and executed in the users browser.

Note: This malicious data must be first uploaded to the database by an authorized user, so the risk here is limited to trusted users

Solution

The solution here is two-fold:

  • Enable data sanitization for the EasyMDE renderer - #3205
  • Enforce cleaning of all data uploaded to the database via the API - #3204 (This will be ready for the 0.8.0 release)

Patches

  • The issue is addressed in the upcoming 0.8.0 release
  • This fix will also be back-ported to the 0.7.x branch, applied to the 0.7.3 release

Workarounds

There is no workaround for this issue without upgrading InvenTree to the specified version.

References

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References

@SchrodingersGat SchrodingersGat published to inventree/InvenTree Jun 16, 2022
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jun 17, 2022
Reviewed Jun 17, 2022
Last updated Jan 12, 2023

Severity

High

Weaknesses

CVE ID

No known CVE

GHSA ID

GHSA-85q9-7467-r53q

Source code

No known source code

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