CVE-2023-28158

Apache Archiva privilege escalation

State: Published
Severity: 6.5 Medium
Published: Mar 29, 2023
Updated: Feb 13, 2025
Reserved: Mar 13, 2023

Description

Privilege escalation via stored XSS using the file upload service to upload malicious content. The issue can be exploited only by authenticated users which can create directory name to inject some XSS content and gain some privileges such admin user.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L	apache

Weaknesses

CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Apache ArchivaApache Software Foundation	2.0 to before 2.2.10Affected

References

https://lists.apache.org/thread/8pm6d5y9cptznm0bdny3n8voovmm0dttvendor-advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/18/2

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