Cross-site scripting in Vantara Pentaho Business Analytics Server - CVE-2020-24669
Published: January 29, 2021 / Updated: February 2, 2021
Vulnerability identifier: #VU50238
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-24669
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
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 the New Analysis Report within the "Analysis Report Description" field in "About this Report" section. A remote authenticated 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.
Affected software
Vantara Pentaho Business Analytics Server
How to mitigate CVE-2020-24669
Install update from vendor's website.
Vantara Pentaho Business Analytics Server - addressed in versions 8.3.0.9, 9.0.0.1, 9.1.0.0 GA