Cross-site scripting in vega - CVE-2023-26487
Published: March 20, 2023
Vulnerability identifier: #VU73795
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2023-26487
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 "lassoAppend" function. 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.
Affected software
vega
vega-functions
IBM Decision Optimization for Cloud Pak for Data
Kibana
vega-functions
IBM Decision Optimization for Cloud Pak for Data
Kibana
How to mitigate CVE-2023-26487
Install updates from vendor's website.
vega - update to 5.23.0
vega-functions - update to 5.13.1
IBM Decision Optimization for Cloud Pak for Data - update to 4.6.5
Kibana - addressed in versions 7.17.10, 8.7.0
vega-functions - update to 5.13.1
IBM Decision Optimization for Cloud Pak for Data - update to 4.6.5
Kibana - addressed in versions 7.17.10, 8.7.0