Medium severity · published Sep 30, 2021
CVE-2021-41101
wire-server is an open-source back end for Wire, a secure collaboration platform
5.7
CVSS
0.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
wire-server is an open-source back end for Wire, a secure collaboration platform. Before version 2.106.0, the CORS ` Access-Control-Allow-Origin ` header set by `nginz` is set for all subdomains of `.wire.com` (including `wire.com`). This means that if somebody were to find an XSS vector in any of the subdomains, they could use it to talk to the Wire API using the user's Cookie. A patch does not exist, but a workaround does. To make sure that a compromise of one subdomain does not yield access to the cookie of another, one may limit the `Access-Control-Allow-Origin` header to apps that actually require the cookie (account-pages, team-settings and the webapp).
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.7% · higher than 53% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
WS
Wire Server · Wire
before 2.106.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-41101
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-41101
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/wireapp/wire-server/security/advisories/GHSA-v7xx-cx8m-g66p
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