CVE-2024-5165: eclipse foundation eclipse ditto Cross-site Scripting

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-5165 is a medium (CVSS 6.5) Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in eclipse foundation eclipse ditto. EPSS estimates a 0.50% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 41.4% of scored vulnerabilities. 7 public exploits are recorded.

Timeline

1. 23-05-2024
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 01-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In Eclipse Ditto versions 3.0.0 to 3.5.5, the user input of several input fields of the Eclipse Ditto Explorer User Interface https://eclipse.dev/ditto/user-interface.html was not properly neutralized and thus vulnerable to both Reflected and Stored XSS (Cross Site Scripting). Several inputs were not persisted at the backend of Eclipse Ditto, but only in local browser storage to save settings of "environments" of the UI and e.g. the last performed "search queries", resulting in a "Reflected XSS" vulnerability. However, several other inputs were persisted at the backend of Eclipse Ditto, leading to a "Stored XSS" vulnerability. Those mean that authenticated and authorized users at Eclipse Ditto can persist Things in Ditto which can - when being displayed by other users also being authorized to see those Things in the Eclipse Ditto UI - cause scripts to be executed in the browser of other users.

• CWE-79Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users.