In short
- CVE-2024-45399 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.1) vulnerability affecting indico, indico (cern).
- Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.38%, higher than 32.4% of all vulnerabilities.
- Fix: update to 3.3.4 or later.
| Package | Affected versions | Patched versions |
|---|
| indico PyPI | < 3.3.4
| 3.3.4
|
| indico | < 3.3.4
| 3.3.4
|
Description
Impact
There is a Cross-Site-Scripting vulnerability during account creation when redirecting after the account has been successfully created.
Exploitation requires the user to initiate the account creation process with a maliciously crafted link, and then finalize the signup process. Because of this, it can only target newly created (and thus unprivileged) Indico users so the benefits of exploiting it are very limited.
Patches
You should to update to Indico 3.3.4 as soon as possible.
See the docs for instructions on how to update.
Workarounds
- If you build the Indico package yourself and cannot upgrade for some reason, you can simply update the
flask-multipass dependency to >=0.5.5 which fixes the vulnerability. You would do that by editing requirements.txt before building the package (see commit 7dcb573837), or possibly cherry-picking that particular commit.
- Otherwise you could configure your web server to disallow requests containing a query string with a parameter that starts with
javascript:
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NVD description
Indico is an event management system that uses Flask-Multipass, a multi-backend authentication system for Flask. In Indico prior to version 3.3.4, corresponding to Flask-Multipass prior to version 0.5.5, there is a Cross-Site-Scripting vulnerability during account creation when redirecting to the `next` URL. Exploitation requires initiating the account creation process with a maliciously crafted link, and then finalizing the signup process. Because of this, it can only target newly created (and thus unprivileged) Indico users. Indico 3.3.4 upgrades the dependency on Flask-Multipass to version 0.5.5, which fixes the issue. Those who build the Indico package themselves and cannot upgrade can update the `flask-multipass` dependency to `>=0.5.5` which fixes the vulnerability. Otherwise one could configure one's web server to disallow requests containing a query string with a `next` parameter that starts with `javascript:`.
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