vitessio vitess up to 19.0.7/20.0.3/21.0.0 /debug/querylogz cross site scripting

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A vulnerability was found in vitessio vitess up to 19.0.7/20.0.3/21.0.0. It has been declared as problematic. The affected element is an unknown function of the file /debug/querylogz. Such manipulation leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-53257. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in vitessio vitess up to 19.0.7/20.0.3/21.0.0 and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the file /debug/querylogz. 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:

Vitess is a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL. The /debug/querylogz and /debug/env pages for vtgate and vttablet do not properly escape user input. The result is that queries executed by Vitess can write HTML into the monitoring page at will. These pages are rendered using text/template instead of rendering with a proper HTML templating engine. This vulnerability is fixed in 21.0.1, 20.0.4, and 19.0.8.

The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-53257 since 11/19/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. Additional levels of successful authentication are needed for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. This vulnerability is assigned to T1059.007 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 233154 (CBL Mariner 2.0 Security Update: vitess (CVE-2024-53257)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 19.0.8, 20.0.4 or 21.0.1 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 2b71d1b5f8ca676beeab2875525003cd45096217 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.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (233154). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Vendor

• vitessio

Name

• vitess

Version

• 19.0.0
• 19.0.1
• 19.0.2
• 19.0.3
• 19.0.4
• 19.0.5
• 19.0.6
• 19.0.7
• 20.0.0
• 20.0.1
• 20.0.2
• 20.0.3
• 21.0

License

• open-source

Website

• Product: https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/

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