CVE-2024-40643

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.

CVSS v3 9.6 CRITICAL

9.6^/10

CVSS v3 : CRITICAL

Vector :

Exploitability : 2.8 / Impact : 6.0

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope CHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/commit/b220413a9b5ed55fb1f565ac786a5c231da8bc87	Patch
https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/security/advisories/GHSA-g796-3g6g-jmmc	Exploit Vendor Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:joplin_project:joplin:*:*:*:*:*:-:*:*

History

17 Sep 2024, 18:03

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time		Joplin Project Joplin Project joplin
CPE		cpe:2.3:a:joplin_project:joplin::::::-::*
References	~~() https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/commit/b220413a9b5ed55fb1f565ac786a5c231da8bc87 -~~	() https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/commit/b220413a9b5ed55fb1f565ac786a5c231da8bc87 - Patch
References	~~() https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/security/advisories/GHSA-g796-3g6g-jmmc -~~	() https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/security/advisories/GHSA-g796-3g6g-jmmc - Exploit, Vendor Advisory

09 Sep 2024, 18:30

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2024-09-09 15:15

Updated : 2024-09-17 18:03

NVD link : CVE-2024-40643

Mitre link : CVE-2024-40643

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2024-40643

JSON object : View

Products Affected

joplin_project

joplin

CWE

CWE-79

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

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