PT-2018-17767 · Etherpad · Etherpad Lite

Published 2018-02-08 · Updated 2018-02-26 · CVE-2018-6834

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 Etherpad Lite versions prior to 1.6.3

Description The issue is related to a security problem in the static/js/pad utils.js file. It allows for XSS via the window.location.href.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.6.3, update to version 1.6.3 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-6834

Affected Products

Etherpad Lite

References · 4

• https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite/commit/a03422b09468cdd5f192b05643311c705447588b · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-6834 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6834 · Security Note
• https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite/releases/tag/1.6.3 · Note