CVE-2024-43396

Description

### Summary The Automation feature allows a user to insert arbitrary HTML inside the task instructions, resulting in a Stored XSS. ### Details The `q` parameter for the `/api/automation` endpoint does not get correctly sanitized when rendered on the page, resulting in the ability of users to inject arbitrary HTML/JS. ### PoC ``` POST /api/automation?q=%22%3E%3C%2Ftextarea%3E%3Cimg%20src%3Dx%20onerror%3Dalert(document.cookie)%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert(2)%3C%2Fscript%3E ``` ### Impact Stored XSS:  ### Fix - Added a Content Security Policy to all config pages on the web client, including the automation page - Used DOM scripting to construct all components on the config pages, including the automation page

How to fix CVE-2024-43396

To remediate CVE-2024-43396, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.

• —upgrade to 1.15.0 or later
• —upgrade to 1.15.0 or later

Is CVE-2024-43396 being exploited?

Low — EPSS is 0.5%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.

Affected packages (2)

• from 0, < 1.15.0
• from 0, < 1.15.0

CVSS scores

References (7)

• ADVISORYgithub.com/advisories/GHSA-cf72-vg59-4j4h
• ADVISORYnvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-43396
• PATCHgithub.com/khoj-ai/khoj
• PATCHpypi.org/project/khoj
• WEBgithub.com