CVE-2024-28100 HIGH

CVE-2024-28100: Stored Cross-site Scripting leading to arbitrary actions taken on behalf of users in elabftw

Vendor Elabftw
Product elabftw
Weakness CWE-79 · XSS
Published September 2, 2024
Last update September 3, 2024

CVSS base score

8.9/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction Required
Confidentiality High
Integrity High

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

eLabFTW is an open source electronic lab notebook for research labs. By uploading specially crafted files, a regular user can create a circumstance where a visitor's browser runs arbitrary JavaScript code in the context of the eLabFTW application. This can be triggered by the visitor viewing a list of experiments. Viewing this allows the malicious script to act on behalf of the visitor in any way, including the creation of API keys for persistence, or other options normally available to the user. If the user viewing the page has the sysadmin role in eLabFTW, the script can act as a sysadmin (including system configuration and extensive user management roles). Users are advised to upgrade to at least version 5.0.0. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

September 2, 2024 CVE published
September 3, 2024 Record updated