CVE-2023-1767 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Snyk Advisor website (https://snyk.io/advisor/) was vulnerable to a stored XSS prior to 28th March 2023. A feature of Snyk Advisor is to display the contents of a scanned package's Readme on its package health page. An attacker could create a package in NPM with an associated markdown README file containing XSS-able HTML tags. Upon Snyk Advisor importing the package, the XSS would run each time an end user browsed to the package's page on Snyk Advisor.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.03174.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Snyk Subscribe	Advisor Subscribe

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:snyk:advisor:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2023-23978	The Snyk Advisor website (https://snyk.io/advisor/) was vulnerable to a stored XSS prior to 28th March 2023. A feature of Snyk Advisor is to display the contents of a scanned package's Readme on its package health page. An attacker could create a package in NPM with an associated markdown README file containing XSS-able HTML tags. Upon Snyk Advisor importing the package, the XSS would run each time an end user browsed to the package's page on Snyk Advisor.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://support.snyk.io/hc/en-us/articles/10146704933405
https://weizman.github.io/2023/04/10/snyk-xss/

History

Wed, 05 Feb 2025 16:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Projects

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: snyk

Published: 2023-04-20T09:20:05.667Z

Updated: 2025-02-05T16:09:37.635Z

Reserved: 2023-03-31T08:01:32.553Z

Link: CVE-2023-1767

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T05:57:25.063Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-04-20T10:15:07.433

Modified: 2024-11-21T07:39:52.033

Link: CVE-2023-1767

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-79

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