PYSEC-2024-19

Vulnerability from pysec - Published: 2024-01-23 18:15 - Updated: 2024-01-29 22:21
VLAI
Details

Whoogle Search is a self-hosted metasearch engine. In versions 0.8.3 and prior, the element method in app/routes.py does not validate the user-controlled src_type and element_url variables and passes them to the send method which sends a GET request on lines 339-343 in requests.py. The returned contents of the URL are then passed to and reflected back to the user in the send_file function on line 484, together with the user-controlled src_type, which allows the attacker to control the HTTP response content type leading to a cross-site scripting vulnerability. An attacker could craft a special URL to point to a malicious website and send the link to a victim. The fact that the link would contain a trusted domain (e.g. from one of public Whoogle instances) could be used to trick the user into clicking the link.The malicious website could, for example, be a copy of a real website, meant to steal a person’s credentials to the website, or trick that person in another way. Version 0.8.4 contains a patch for this issue.

Severity
6.1 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Impacted products
Name purl
whoogle-search pkg:pypi/whoogle-search
Aliases
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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "PyPI",
        "name": "whoogle-search",
        "purl": "pkg:pypi/whoogle-search"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "3a2e0b262e4a076a20416b45e6b6f23fd265aeda"
            }
          ],
          "repo": "https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search",
          "type": "GIT"
        },
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "0.8.4"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "0.1.0",
        "0.1.3",
        "0.1.4",
        "0.2.0",
        "0.2.1",
        "0.3.0",
        "0.3.1",
        "0.3.2",
        "0.4.0",
        "0.4.1",
        "0.5.0",
        "0.5.1",
        "0.5.2",
        "0.5.3",
        "0.5.4",
        "0.6.0",
        "0.7.0",
        "0.7.1",
        "0.7.2",
        "0.7.3",
        "0.7.4",
        "0.8.0",
        "0.8.1",
        "0.8.2",
        "0.8.3"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2024-22417",
    "GHSA-phg6-44m7-hx3h"
  ],
  "details": "Whoogle Search is a self-hosted metasearch engine. In versions 0.8.3 and prior, the `element` method in `app/routes.py` does not validate the user-controlled `src_type` and `element_url` variables and passes them to the `send` method which sends a `GET` request on lines 339-343 in `requests.py`. The returned contents of the URL are then passed to and reflected back to the user in the `send_file` function on line 484, together with the user-controlled `src_type`, which allows the attacker to control the HTTP response content type leading to a cross-site scripting vulnerability. An attacker could craft a special URL to point to a malicious website and send the link to a victim. The fact that the link would contain a trusted domain (e.g. from one of public Whoogle instances) could be used to trick the user into clicking the link.The malicious website could, for example, be a copy of a real website, meant to steal a person\u2019s credentials to the website, or trick that person in another way. Version 0.8.4 contains a patch for this issue.",
  "id": "PYSEC-2024-19",
  "modified": "2024-01-29T22:21:01.226431+00:00",
  "published": "2024-01-23T18:15:00+00:00",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "EVIDENCE",
      "url": "https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2023-186_GHSL-2023-189_benbusby_whoogle-search/"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2023-186_GHSL-2023-189_benbusby_whoogle-search/"
    },
    {
      "type": "FIX",
      "url": "https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/commit/3a2e0b262e4a076a20416b45e6b6f23fd265aeda"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/blob/92e8ede24e9277a5440d403f75877209f1269884/app/request.py#L339-L343"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/blob/92e8ede24e9277a5440d403f75877209f1269884/app/routes.py#L465-L490"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/blob/92e8ede24e9277a5440d403f75877209f1269884/app/routes.py#L466"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/blob/92e8ede24e9277a5440d403f75877209f1269884/app/routes.py#L476"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/blob/92e8ede24e9277a5440d403f75877209f1269884/app/routes.py#L479"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/blob/92e8ede24e9277a5440d403f75877209f1269884/app/routes.py#L484C6-L484C7"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-phg6-44m7-hx3h"
    }
  ],
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ]
}



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