PT-2023-32240 · Facebook · React Developer Tools

Calumhutton · Published 2023-10-19 · Updated 2024-09-12 · CVE-2023-5654

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v4.0

6.9

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions React Developer Tools extension (affected versions not specified)

Description The React Developer Tools extension has a message listener registered with window.addEventListener('message', <listener>) in a content script accessible to any active webpage in the browser. This listener contains code that requests a URL derived from the received message via fetch(). The URL is not validated or sanitized before it is fetched, allowing a malicious webpage to arbitrarily fetch URLs via the victim's browser.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Improper Authorization

Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-285

CWE-116

Related Identifiers

CVE-2023-5654

GHSA-RXRC-RGV4-JPVX

Affected Products

React Developer Tools

References · 11

• https://gist.github.com/CalumHutton/1fb89b64409570a43f89d1fd3274b231 · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5654 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-rxrc-rgv4-jpvx · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-5654 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/facebook/react · Note
• https://github.com/facebook/react/pull/27417 · Note
• https://github.com/facebook/react/commit/09285d5a7f1c08bec09f44cec3d0518a603597fc · Note
• https://github.com/facebook/react/commit/94d5b5b2bf5204ebd289a113989c0e2c51b626ef · Note
• https://twitter.com/VulmonFeeds/status/1715043411751784961 · Twitter Post
• https://t.me/cibsecurity/72575 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1715015235239579706 · Twitter Post