PT-2024-28961 · Joplin · Joplin

Febou92 · Published 2024-09-09 · Updated 2024-09-17 · CVE-2024-40643

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

9.6

Critical

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Joplin (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue arises from Joplin's failure to consider that "<" followed by a non-letter character will not be considered HTML. This oversight allows for a potential XSS attack by injecting an "illegal" tag within a tag. The vulnerability is related to the application's handling of HTML tags and characters.

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

Exploit

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2024-40643

GHSA-G796-3G6G-JMMC

Affected Products

Joplin

References · 12

• 🔥 https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/security/advisories/GHSA-g796-3g6g-jmmc · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/40xxx/CVE-2024-40643.json · Exploit
• https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/commit/b220413a9b5ed55fb1f565ac786a5c231da8bc87 · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-40643 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-40643 · Vendor Advisory
• https://twitter.com/cracbot/status/1834834514826477593 · Twitter Post
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1833156212260512094 · Twitter Post
• https://twitter.com/CveFindCom/status/1833158892324323438 · Twitter Post
• https://twitter.com/VulmonFeeds/status/1833183061363622181 · Twitter Post
• https://twitter.com/cracbot/status/1834109785781981661 · Twitter Post
• https://t.me/latest_high_impact_cve/1121 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cvedetector/5109 · Telegram Post