CVE-2024-43800

serve-static affected by template injection that can lead to XSS

State: Published
Severity: 5.0 Medium
Published: Sep 10, 2024
Updated: Sep 10, 2024
Reserved: Aug 16, 2024

Description

serve-static serves static files. serve-static passes untrusted user input - even after sanitizing it - to redirect() may execute untrusted code. This issue is patched in serve-static 1.16.0.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.0 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

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

Affected Products

Product	Versions
serve-staticexpressjs	< 1.16.0Affected >= 2.0.0, < 2.1.0Affected

References

https://github.com/expressjs/serve-static/security/advisories/GHSA-cm22-4g7w-348p
https://github.com/expressjs/serve-static/commit/0c11fad159898cdc69fd9ab63269b72468ecaf6b
https://github.com/expressjs/serve-static/commit/ce730896fddce1588111d9ef6fdf20896de5c6fa

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