Information Exposure Affecting ghost package, versions [,0.5.9)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DOTNET-GHOST-60156
  • published22 Mar 2017
  • disclosed22 Mar 2017
  • creditMatteo Beccaro

Introduced: 22 Mar 2017

CVE-2015-1411  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade ghost to version 0.5.9 or higher.

Overview

ghost is Just a blogging platform. Affected versions of the package are vulnerable to Bearer token leakage, due to storing it in the localStorage of the browser. If used alongside a Cross-site Scripting (XSS) attack, a malicious user may hijack the user session.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1