Mastodon up to 3.5.8/4.0.4/4.1.2 oEmbed Preview Card cross site scripting

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A vulnerability categorized as problematic has been discovered in Mastodon up to 3.5.8/4.0.4/4.1.2. The impacted element is an unknown function of the component oEmbed Preview Card Handler. The manipulation results in cross site scripting. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2023-36459. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Mastodon up to 3.5.8/4.0.4/4.1.2. Affected is an unknown functionality of the component oEmbed Preview Card Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as 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. This is going to have an impact on integrity. CVE summarizes:

Mastodon is a free, open-source social network server based on ActivityPub. Starting in version 1.3 and prior to versions 3.5.9, 4.0.5, and 4.1.3, an attacker using carefully crafted oEmbed data can bypass the HTML sanitization performed by Mastodon and include arbitrary HTML in oEmbed preview cards. This introduces a vector for cross-site scripting (XSS) payloads that can be rendered in the user's browser when a preview card for a malicious link is clicked through. Versions 3.5.9, 4.0.5, and 4.1.3 contain a patch for this issue.

The weakness was disclosed 07/06/2023 as GHSA-ccm4-vgcc-73hp. The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2023-36459 since 06/21/2023. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1059.007 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version 3.5.9, 4.0.5 or 4.1.3 eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at github.com. Applying the patch 6d8e0fae3e96f3cf4febe03fa7fcf5b95ff761b2 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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Name

• Mastodon

Version

• 3.5.0
• 3.5.1
• 3.5.2
• 3.5.3
• 3.5.4
• 3.5.5
• 3.5.6
• 3.5.7
• 3.5.8
• 4.0.0
• 4.0.1
• 4.0.2
• 4.0.3
• 4.0.4
• 4.1.0
• 4.1.1
• 4.1.2

License

• open-source

Website

• Product: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/

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