Medium severity · published May 30, 2023
CVE-2023-33186
Cross-site scripting vulnerability in Zulip Server development branch via topic tooltip
6.1
CVSS
0.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Zulip is an open-source team collaboration tool with unique topic-based threading that combines the best of email and chat to make remote work productive and delightful. The main development branch of Zulip Server from May 2, 2023 and later, including beta versions 7.0-beta1 and 7.0-beta2, is vulnerable to a cross-site scripting vulnerability in tooltips on the message feed. An attacker who can send messages could maliciously craft a topic for the message, such that a victim who hovers the tooltip for that topic in their message feed triggers execution of JavaScript code controlled by the attacker.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.6% · higher than 50% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
ZU
zulip · zulip
>= 7.0-beta1, < 7.0-beta3 · source: vendor
ZS
Zulip Server · Zulip
7.0; 7.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-33186
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-33186
github.com
https://github.com/zulip/zulip/commit/03cfb3d9fe61c975d133121ec31a7357f0c9e18f
Patch
https://github.com/zulip/zulip/commit/3ca131743b00f42bad8edbac4ef92656d954c629
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/zulip/zulip/pull/25370
Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/zulip/zulip/security/advisories/GHSA-4r83-8f94-hrph
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