CVE-2024-40643

Published Sep 9, 2024

Last updated 5 months ago

CVSS critical 9.6

Overview

Description: Joplin is a free, open source note taking and to-do application. Joplin fails to take into account that "<" followed by a non letter character will not be considered html. As such it is possible to do an XSS by putting an "illegal" tag within a tag.
Source: security-advisories@github.com
NVD status: Analyzed

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type: Primary
Base score: 9.6
Impact score: 6
Exploitability score: 2.8
Vector string: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Severity: CRITICAL

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: CWE-79
security-advisories@github.com: CWE-79

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:joplin_project:joplin:*:*:*:*:*:-:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "A3D65634-E8F7-4309-8E4A-EE63510B032F",
            "versionEndExcluding": "3.0.15"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References