CVE-2022-39350 – @dependencytrack/frontend vulnerable to Persistent Cross-Site-Scripting via Vulnerability Details

https://notcve.org/view.php?id=CVE-2022-39350

@dependencytrack/frontend is a Single Page Application (SPA) used in Dependency-Track, an open source Component Analysis platform that allows organizations to identify and reduce risk in the software supply chain. Due to the common practice of providing vulnerability details in markdown format, the Dependency-Track frontend renders them using the JavaScript library Showdown. Showdown does not have any XSS countermeasures built in, and versions before 4.6.1 of the Dependency-Track frontend did not encode or sanitize Showdown's output. This made it possible for arbitrary JavaScript included in vulnerability details via HTML attributes to be executed in context of the frontend. Actors with the `VULNERABILITY_MANAGEMENT` permission can exploit this weakness by creating or editing a custom vulnerability and providing XSS payloads in any of the following fields: Description, Details, Recommendation, or References. • https://docs.dependencytrack.org/changelog https://github.com/DependencyTrack/frontend/security/advisories/GHSA-c33w-pm52-mqvf https://github.com/showdownjs/showdown/wiki/Markdown%27s-XSS-Vulnerability-%28and-how-to-mitigate-it%29 • CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') •