Medium severity · published Mar 2, 2022
CVE-2022-23656
Cross-site scripting vulnerability in Zulip Server
5.4
CVSS
0.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Zulip is an open source team chat app. The `main` development branch of Zulip Server from June 2021 and later is vulnerable to a cross-site scripting vulnerability on the recent topics page. An attacker could maliciously craft a full name for their account and send messages to a topic with several participants; a victim who then opens an overflow tooltip including this full name on the recent topics page could trigger execution of JavaScript code controlled by the attacker. Users running a Zulip server from the main branch should upgrade from main (2022-03-01 or later) again to deploy this fix.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.6% · higher than 48% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
ZU
zulip · zulip
>= 2021-06-03, < 2022-03-01 · source: vendor
ZS
Zulip Server · Zulip
2021-06-03 before 2022-03-01 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-23656
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-23656
Patch
https://github.com/zulip/zulip/commit/e090027adcbf62737d5b1f83a9618a9500a49321
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/zulip/zulip/security/advisories/GHSA-fc77-h3jc-6mfv
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