Alfresco Enterprise/Community User Profile Photo SVG Document cross site scripting

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Alfresco Enterprise and Community. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component User Profile Photo Handler. The manipulation as part of SVG Document leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2020-8777. The attack can be initiated remotely. Additionally, an exploit exists. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Alfresco Enterprise and Community (version now known). It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component User Profile Photo Handler. The manipulation as part of a SVG Document leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. Impacted is integrity. The summary by CVE is:

Alfresco Enterprise before 5.2.7 and Alfresco Community before 6.2.0 (rb65251d6-b368) has XSS via a user profile photo, as demonstrated by a SCRIPT element in an SVG document.

The weakness was released 03/02/2020. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2020-8777 since 02/07/2020. The attack may be initiated remotely. Required for exploitation is a simple authentication. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1059.007 for this issue.

The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Exploit-DB (48162). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at VDB-150822 and VDB-150820. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Alfresco

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VulDB Meta Temp Score: 4.3

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Class: Cross site scripting
CWE: CWE-79 / CWE-94 / CWE-74
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Physical: No
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Remote: Yes

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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: 156599
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2020-8777 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2020-8777
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-150821
scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Entryinfo

Created: 03/03/2020 11:02
Updated: 05/10/2025 22:51
Changes: 03/03/2020 11:02 (37), 03/03/2020 11:07 (17), 04/09/2024 09:38 (19), 01/05/2025 15:16 (12), 05/10/2025 22:51 (3)
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