yetanalytics lrs up to 1.2.16 xAPI cross site scripting

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A vulnerability has been found in yetanalytics lrs up to 1.2.16 and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component xAPI Handler. This manipulation causes cross site scripting. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-26140. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability has been found in yetanalytics lrs up to 1.2.16 and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown part of the component xAPI Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is 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. As an impact it is known to affect integrity. The summary by CVE is:

com.yetanalytics/lrs is the Yet Analytics Core LRS Library. Prior to version 1.2.17 of the LRS library and version 0.7.5 of SQL LRS, a maliciously crafted xAPI statement could be used to perform script or other tag injection in the LRS Statement Browser. The problem is patched in version 1.2.17 of the LRS library and version 0.7.5 of SQL LRS. No known workarounds exist.

The weakness was shared 02/21/2024 as GHSA-7rw2-3hhp-rc46. It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-26140 since 02/14/2024. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1059.007 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 1.2.17 eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at github.com. Applying the patch d7f4883bc2252337d25e8bba2c7f9d172f5b0621 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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Vendor

• yetanalytics

Name

• lrs

Version

• 1.2.0
• 1.2.1
• 1.2.2
• 1.2.3
• 1.2.4
• 1.2.5
• 1.2.6
• 1.2.7
• 1.2.8
• 1.2.9
• 1.2.10
• 1.2.11
• 1.2.12
• 1.2.13
• 1.2.14
• 1.2.15
• 1.2.16

License

• open-source

Website

• Product: https://github.com/yetanalytics/lrs/

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