CVE-2025-40702
BaseFortify
Publication date: 2025-08-29
Last updated on: 2025-09-02
Assigner: Spanish National Cybersecurity Institute, S.A. (INCIBE)
Description
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Affected Vendors & Products
| Vendor | Product | Version / Range |
|---|---|---|
| craws | openatlas | 8.9.0 |
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Exploitability
| CWE ID | Description |
|---|---|
| CWE-79 | 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. |
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Can you explain this vulnerability to me?
This vulnerability is a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) issue in OpenAtlas v8.9.0. It occurs because the application does not properly validate user input sent via POST requests, specifically in the "/insert/file" endpoint using the "creator" and "license_holder" parameters. An attacker can exploit this by sending specially crafted queries to an authenticated user, potentially stealing their session cookie details.
How can this vulnerability impact me? :
This vulnerability can allow a remote attacker to execute malicious scripts in the context of an authenticated user's session. This can lead to theft of session cookies, which may enable the attacker to hijack the user's session and gain unauthorized access to the application with the user's privileges.