CVE-2025-54384
BaseFortify
Publication date: 2025-10-29
Last updated on: 2025-10-30
Assigner: GitHub, Inc.
Description
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Affected Vendors & Products
| Vendor | Product | Version / Range |
|---|---|---|
| ckan | ckan | * |
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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 CKAN's helpers.markdown_extract() function, which did not properly sanitize user input before embedding it in HTML. This allows attackers to inject malicious scripts into pages that render user-provided data, potentially affecting dataset, resource, organization, group pages, or any extension pages using this helper.
How can this vulnerability impact me? :
The vulnerability can lead to the execution of malicious scripts in the context of users viewing affected pages, potentially compromising user data confidentiality (high impact), causing limited integrity issues, and requiring user interaction. This could result in unauthorized actions or data exposure within the CKAN data management system.
What immediate steps should I take to mitigate this vulnerability?
Upgrade CKAN to version 2.10.9 or 2.11.4 or later, as these versions contain the fix for the vulnerability in the helpers.markdown_extract() function that prevents insufficient sanitization leading to XSS.