Gửi #583534: Mist.io Mist Community Edition (CE) 4.7.1 Open Redirect

Vulnerability
Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via Open Redirect

Summary
Mist Community Edition (CE) before v4.7.2 fails to properly validate the "return_to" parameter in the authentication endpoint, creating an open redirect and a reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities. An attacker can craft malicious login URLs and send it to the victim. If the victims visits it and authenticates, they will either be redirected to an arbitrary external domain or execute attacker-controlled JavaScript context within Mist CE application. This vulnerability requires user interaction but can lead to credential phishing, session hijacking, or other client-side attacks depending on the payload delivered through the crafted URL.

For full technical details, including proof of concept steps and video please refer to my GitHub repository in the "Advisory / Exploit" field below.

Affected Versions
Vulnerable: ≤ 4.7.1
Fixed: 4.7.2

Suggested Severity
5.5 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Vendor Coordination:
The vulnerability was responsibly disclosed to the Mist Community Edition maintainer. They acknowledged the report and explicitly agreed to a potential CVE assignment. A fix was implemented and released in version 4.7.2.

Mist CE Release 4.7.2 (Patched): https://github.com/mistio/mist-ce/releases/tag/v4.7.2
Fix Commit: https://github.com/mistio/mist.api/commit/db10ecb62ac832c1ed4924556d167efb9bc07fad

Discovered by
Alex Perrakis (Stolichnayer)
Efstratios Chatzoglou (efchatz)
Georgios Kambourakis

• Nguồn: ⚠️ https://github.com/Stolichnayer/mist-ce-open-redirect
• Người dùng: alexperrakis (UID 85369)
• Đệ trình: 23/05/2025 12:46 (cách đây 1 Năm)
• Kiểm duyệt: 31/05/2025 18:51 (8 days later)
• Trạng thái: được chấp nhận
• Mục VulDB: 310752 [Mist Community Edition đến 4.7.1 Authentication Endpoint src/mist/api/views.py login return_to Tập lệnh chéo trang]
• điểm: 20