CVE-2021-21422 (GCVE-0-2021-21422)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-06-21 18:45 – Updated: 2024-08-03 18:09
VLAI
Title
XSS Vulnerability in mongo-express
Summary
mongo-express is a web-based MongoDB admin interface, written with Node.js and express. 1: As mentioned in this issue: https://github.com/mongo-express/mongo-express/issues/577, when the content of a cell grows larger than supported size, clicking on a row will show full document unescaped, however this needs admin interaction on cell. 2: Data cells identified as media will be rendered as media, without being sanitized. Example of different renders: image, audio, video, etc. As an example of type 1 attack, an unauthorized user who only can send a large amount of data in a field of a document may use a payload with embedded javascript. This could send an export of a collection to the attacker without even an admin knowing. Other types of attacks such as dropping a database\collection are possible.
Severity
8.1 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Assigner
GitHub_M CNA
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
mongo-express mongo-express Affected: < v1.0.0-alpha.4
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