CVE-2023-45815

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Summary

CVECVE-2023-45815
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-10-19 22:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-10-30 15:31:00 UTC
DescriptionArchiveBox is an open source self-hosted web archiving system. Any users who are using the `wget` extractor and view the content it outputs. The impact is potentially severe if you are logged in to the ArchiveBox admin site in the same browser session and view an archived malicious page designed to target your ArchiveBox instance. Malicious Javascript could potentially act using your logged-in admin credentials and add/remove/modify snapshots, add/remove/modify ArchiveBox users, and generally do anything an admin user could do. The impact is less severe for non-logged-in users, as malicious Javascript cannot *modify* any archives, but it can still *read* all the other archived content by fetching the snapshot index and iterating through it. Because all of ArchiveBox's archived content is served from the same host and port as the admin panel, when archived pages are viewed the JS executes in the same context as all the other archived pages (and the admin panel), defeating most of the browser's usual CORS/CSRF security protections and leading to this issue. A patch is being developed in https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/issues/239. As a mitigation for this issue would be to disable the wget extractor by setting `archivebox config --set SAVE_WGET=False`, ensure you are always logged out, or serve only a [static HTML version](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Publishing-Your-Archive#2-export-and-host-it-as-static-html) of your archive.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-79

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Archivebox Archivebox All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Architecture: Archived JS executes in a context shared with all other archived content (and the admin UI!) · Issue #239 · ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox · GitHub MISC github.com
Viewing wget extractor output while logged in as an admin allows malicious archived JS to act on behalf of the admin · Advisory · ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox · GitHub MISC github.com
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Legacy QID Mappings

  • 995669 Python (Pip) Security Update for archivebox (GHSA-cr45-98w9-gwqx)
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