Relative Path Overwrite (RPO) Affecting swagger-ui package, versions <3.23.11


0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity Proof of concept
    EPSS 1.74% (88th percentile)
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NVD
9.8 critical

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-SWAGGERUI-472935
  • published 11 Oct 2019
  • disclosed 10 Oct 2019
  • credit crazykid95

How to fix?

Upgrade swagger-ui to version 3.23.11 or higher.

Overview

swagger-ui is a library that allows interaction and visualisation of APIs.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Relative Path Overwrite (RPO). Attackers are able to use the Relative Path Overwrite (RPO) technique to perform CSS-based input field value exfiltration, such as exfiltration of a CSRF token value i.e. allows the embedding of untrusted JSON data from remote servers, using <style>@import within the JSON data.