PT-2019-11621 · Invenio · Invenio-Communities

Nielsen · Published 2019-07-16 · Updated 2019-08-01 · CVE-2019-1020005

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.4

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Invenio-Communities versions prior to 1.0.0a20

Description: A Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) issue was found in the Invenio-Communities module, specifically in two Jinja templates. This issue allows a user to create a new community and include script element tags inside the description and page fields.

Recommendations: For versions prior to 1.0.0a20, update to version 1.0.0a20 to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the ability to create new communities or editing existing community descriptions and pages until the update is applied.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2019-1020005

GHSA-MFV8-Q39F-MGFG

PYSEC-2019-25

Affected Products

Invenio-Communities

References · 8

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-mfv8-q39f-mgfg · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-1020005 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-1020005 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/PYSEC-2019-25 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/invenio-communities/PYSEC-2019-25.yaml · Note
• https://github.com/inveniosoftware/invenio-communities/security/advisories/GHSA-mfv8-q39f-mgfg · Note
• https://github.com/inveniosoftware/invenio-communities/commit/505da72c5acd7dfbd4148f884c73c9c3372b76f4 · Note
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mfv8-q39f-mgfg · Note