CVE-2024-53268

Lack of validation on openExternal allows 1 click remote code execution in joplin

State: Published
Severity: 7.3 High
Published: Nov 25, 2024
Updated: Nov 25, 2024
Reserved: Nov 19, 2024

Description

Joplin is an open source, privacy-focused note taking app with sync capabilities for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS. In affected versions attackers are able to abuse the fact that openExternal is used without any filtering of URI schemes to obtain remote code execution in Windows environments. This issue has been addressed in version 3.0.3 and all users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.3 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
joplinlaurent22	< 3.0.3Affected

References

https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/security/advisories/GHSA-pc5v-xp44-5mgv

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