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Duplicate Advisory: Reflected cross-site scripting issue in Datasette

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Jun 10, 2021 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Sep 16, 2024
Withdrawn This advisory was withdrawn on Sep 16, 2024

Package

pip datasette (pip)

Affected versions

< 0.56.1

Patched versions

0.56.1

Description

Duplicate Advisory

This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-xw7c-jx9m-xh5g. This link is maintained to preserve external references.

Original Description

Datasette is an open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data. The ?_trace=1 debugging feature in Datasette does not correctly escape generated HTML, resulting in a reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability. This vulnerability is particularly relevant if your Datasette installation includes authenticated features using plugins such as datasette-auth-passwords as an attacker could use the vulnerability to access protected data. Datasette 0.57 and 0.56.1 both include patches for this issue. If you run Datasette behind a proxy you can workaround this issue by rejecting any incoming requests with ?_trace= or &_trace= in their query string parameters.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jun 7, 2021
Reviewed Jun 9, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jun 10, 2021
Withdrawn Sep 16, 2024
Last updated Sep 16, 2024

Severity

High

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Weaknesses

CVE ID

No known CVE

GHSA ID

GHSA-gff3-739c-gxfq

Source code

No known source code
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