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PYSEC-2021-841

Vulnerability from pysec - Published: 2021-12-01 14:15 - Updated: 2021-12-13 06:35

Details

In CKAN, versions 2.9.0 to 2.9.3 are affected by a stored XSS vulnerability via SVG file upload of users’ profile picture. This allows low privileged application users to store malicious scripts in their profile picture. These scripts are executed in a victim’s browser when they open the malicious profile picture

Impacted products

Name	purl
ckan	pkg:pypi/ckan

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    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "PyPI",
        "name": "ckan",
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      },
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              "introduced": "2.9.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "2.9.4"
            }
          ],
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        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "2.9.0",
        "2.9.1",
        "2.9.2",
        "2.9.3"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2021-25967",
    "GHSA-6w9p-88qg-p3g3"
  ],
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  "id": "PYSEC-2021-841",
  "modified": "2021-12-13T06:35:10.687046Z",
  "published": "2021-12-01T14:15:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.whitesourcesoftware.com/vulnerability-database/CVE-2021-25967"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6w9p-88qg-p3g3"
    }
  ]
}

CVE-2021-25967 (GCVE-0-2021-25967)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-12-01 13:40 – Updated: 2025-04-30 15:44

Title

CKAN - Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via SVG File Upload

Summary

Severity

5.4 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-04-30 15:27 UTC

CWE

CWE-79 - Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

Assigner

Mend

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://www.whitesourcesoftware.com/vulnerability…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
ckan	ckan	Affected: 2.9.0 , < unspecified (custom) Affected: unspecified , ≤ 2.9.3 (custom)

Credits

WhiteSource Vulnerability Research Team (WVR)

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GHSA-6W9P-88QG-P3G3

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2021-12-03 20:44 – Updated: 2024-09-13 18:03

Summary

Cross-site Scripting in CKAN

Details

Severity

5.4 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

5.1 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N

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        "name": "ckan"
      },
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  "modified": "2024-09-13T18:03:57Z",
  "published": "2021-12-03T20:44:48Z",
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      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-25967"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/ckan/ckan/pull/6477"
    },
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      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/ckan/ckan/commit/5a46989c0a4f2c2873ca182c196da83b82babd25"
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PYSEC-2021-841

CVE-2021-25967 (GCVE-0-2021-25967)

GHSA-6W9P-88QG-P3G3

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