CVE-2024-32966 MEDIUM

CVE-2024-32966: Stored Cross-site Scripting in directory listings via file names in static-web-server

Vendor Static-Web-Server
Product static-web-server
Weakness CWE-79 · XSS
Published May 1, 2024
Last update August 2, 2024

CVSS base score

5.8/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity High
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Confidentiality Low
Integrity Low

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Static Web Server (SWS) is a tiny and fast production-ready web server suitable to serve static web files or assets. In affected versions if directory listings are enabled for a directory that an untrusted user has upload privileges for, a malicious file name like `<img src=x onerror=alert(1)>.txt` will allow JavaScript code execution in the context of the web server’s domain. SWS generally does not perform escaping of HTML entities on any values inserted in the directory listing. At the very least `file_name` and `current_path` could contain malicious data however. `file_uri` could also be malicious but the relevant scenarios seem to be all caught by hyper. For any web server that allow users to upload files or create directories under a name of their choosing this becomes a stored Cross-site Scripting vulnerability. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

May 1, 2024 CVE published
August 2, 2024 Record updated

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