Kiwi TCMS up to 12.4 tree_view_html cross site scripting

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A vulnerability was found in Kiwi TCMS up to 12.4 and classified as problematic. This affects the function tree_view_html. Such manipulation leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2023-36809. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Kiwi TCMS up to 12.4. Affected by this issue is the function tree_view_html. The manipulation with an unknown input 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. CVE summarizes:

Kiwi TCMS, an open source test management system allows users to upload attachments to test plans, test cases, etc. Versions of Kiwi TCMS prior to 12.5 had introduced changes which were meant to serve all uploaded files as plain text in order to prevent browsers from executing potentially dangerous files when such files are accessed directly. The previous Nginx configuration was incorrect allowing certain browsers like Firefox to ignore the `Content-Type: text/plain` header on some occasions thus allowing potentially dangerous scripts to be executed. Additionally, file upload validators and parts of the HTML rendering code had been found to require additional sanitation and improvements. Version 12.5 fixes this vulnerability with updated Nginx content type configuration, improved file upload validation code to prevent more potentially dangerous uploads, and Sanitization of test plan names used in the `tree_view_html()` function.

The weakness was presented 07/06/2023 as GHSA-jpgw-2r9m-8qfw. The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2023-36809 since 06/27/2023. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1059.007.

Upgrading to version 12.5 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 195ea53eaaf360c19227c864cc0fe58910032c3c is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

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• Kiwi

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• TCMS

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• 12.0
• 12.1
• 12.2
• 12.3
• 12.4

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• open-source

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