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Security Advisories: MDE2OlNlY3VyaXR5QWR2aXNvcnlHSFNBLXIyd2YtcTN4NC1ocnY5

Default development error handler in Ratpack is vulnerable to HTML content injection (XSS)

Versions of Ratpack from 0.9.10 through 1.7.5 are vulnerable to CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') (aka. XSS) in the development error handler. An attacker can utilize this to perform XSS when an exception message contains untrusted data.

As a simplistic example:

RatpackServer startedServer = RatpackServer.start(server -> {
    server.handlers(chain -> chain.all(ctx -> {
        // User supplied query parameter
        String message = ctx.getRequest().getQueryParams().get("message");
        // User supplied data appended to the message in an exception
        throw new RuntimeException("An error occurred: " + message);
    }));
});

Impact

• Cross-Site Scripting

Patches

This vulnerability has been patched in Ratpack version 1.7.6.

Workarounds

If you are unable to update your version of Ratpack, we recommend the following workarounds and mitigations.

• Ensure that development mode is disabled in production.
• Don't use real customer data (ie. untrusted user input) in development.

References

• Ratpack development mode
• Code Patch - a3cbb13

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:

• Open an issue in ratpack/ratpack
• Ask in our Slack channel

Permalink: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-r2wf-q3x4-hrv9
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Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: Moderate
Classification: General
Published: almost 5 years ago
Updated: about 1 year ago

CVSS Score: 6.1
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Identifiers: GHSA-r2wf-q3x4-hrv9, CVE-2019-10770
References:

• https://github.com/ratpack/ratpack/security/advisories/GHSA-r2wf-q3x4-hrv9
• https://github.com/ratpack/ratpack/commit/a3cbb13be1527874528c3b99fc33517c0297b6d3
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-10770
• https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-IORATPACK-534882
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-r2wf-q3x4-hrv9

Repository: https://github.com/ratpack/ratpack
Blast Radius: 14.3

Affected Packages