CVE-2024-42346

Stored Cross Site Scripting (Stored XSS) in Galaxy

State: Published
Severity: 7.6 High
Published: Sep 20, 2024
Updated: Sep 20, 2024
Reserved: Jul 30, 2024

Description

Galaxy is a free, open-source system for analyzing data, authoring workflows, training and education, publishing tools, managing infrastructure, and more. The editor visualization, /visualizations endpoint, can be used to store HTML tags and trigger javascript execution upon edit operation. All supported branches of Galaxy (and more back to release_20.05) were amended with the supplied patches. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.6 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

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

Affected Products

Product	Versions
galaxygalaxyproject	< 24.1.1Affected

References

https://github.com/galaxyproject/galaxy/security/advisories/GHSA-x6w7-3gwf-qr9r

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