CVE-2024-43396
MEDIUM5.4EPSS 0.92%Khoj Vulnerable to Stored Cross-site Scripting In Automate (Preview feature)
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
Affected packages (1)
- PyPI/khojfrom 0, < 1.15.0
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 4.0 | — | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N |
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N |
References (5)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-43396
- PATCHhttps://github.com/khoj-ai/khoj
- WEBhttps://github.com/khoj-ai/khoj/commit/1c7a562880eeb7354325545d2cf6c5d1d1134812
- WEBhttps://github.com/khoj-ai/khoj/commit/55be90cdd2f9d6a09c8bf9ceea52fc36b9201626
- WEBhttps://github.com/khoj-ai/khoj/security/advisories/GHSA-cf72-vg59-4j4h