sequentech admin-console up to 6.1.7 Election Description cross site scripting

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in sequentech admin-console up to 6.1.7. It has been declared as problematic. The impacted element is an unknown function of the component Election Description Handler. Such manipulation leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2022-4966. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in sequentech admin-console up to 6.1.7 and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the component Election Description Handler. 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.

The weakness was disclosed 06/16/2022 as 292/293. The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2022-4966. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. 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 7.0.0-beta.1 eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at github.com. Applying the patch 0043a6b1e6e0f5abc9557e73f9ffc524fc5d609d 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. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability. The advisory contains the following remark:

There was an issue with election description. During election creation, we relied in ng-bind-html to sanitize the visualization of election description before being sanitized by the backend (because it has not yet been sent to the backend), but apparently it doesn't work for some xss. The same issue happened in election list when showing the description of the drafti election.

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Vendor

• sequentech

Name

• admin-console

Version

• 6.1.0
• 6.1.1
• 6.1.2
• 6.1.3
• 6.1.4
• 6.1.5
• 6.1.6
• 6.1.7

License

• open-source

Website

• Product: https://github.com/sequentech/admin-console/

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