CVE-2024-49362

Published Nov 14, 2024

Last updated 2 days ago

Overview

Description
Joplin is a free, open source note taking and to-do application. Joplin-desktop has a vulnerability that leads to remote code execution (RCE) when a user clicks on an <a> link within untrusted notes. The issue arises due to insufficient sanitization of <a> tag attributes introduced by the Mermaid. This vulnerability allows the execution of untrusted HTML content within the Electron window, which has full access to Node.js APIs, enabling arbitrary shell command execution.
Source
security-advisories@github.com
NVD status
Awaiting Analysis

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type
Secondary
Base score
7.7
Impact score
6
Exploitability score
1.1
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L
Severity
HIGH

Weaknesses

security-advisories@github.com
CWE-94

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