PT-2017-8745 · Swagger · Swagger-Ui

Published 2017-04-10 · Updated 2020-09-01 · CVE-2016-5682

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.1

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions swagger-ui versions prior to 2.2.1

Description The issue concerns a cross-site scripting vulnerability in the key names of a specific nested object in the JSON document, particularly in the definitions section. This can be exploited by loading malicious JSON documents via a URL provided in the url query string parameter. The vulnerability allows for XSS attacks through the Default field in the Definitions section.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.2.1, update to version 2.2.1 or later.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-5682

GHSA-P239-93F7-H6XF

Affected Products

Swagger-Ui

References · 7

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-p239-93f7-h6xf · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5682 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-5682 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/swagger-api/swagger-ui · Note
• https://github.com/swagger-api/swagger-ui/issues/1865 · Note
• https://community.rapid7.com/community/infosec/blog/2016/09/02/r7-2016-19-persistent-xss-via-unescaped-parameters-in-swagger-ui · Note
• https://npmjs.com/advisories/126 · Note