Arbitrary Code Injection Affecting joplin package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Proof of concept

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-JOPLIN-8382102
  • published 15 Nov 2024
  • disclosed 14 Nov 2024
  • credit jackfromeast

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

joplin is a note taking and to-do application.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Injection due to improper sanizitazion by Mermaid integration in <a> tags markdown previews. An attacker can execute arbitrary code, allowing execution within the Electron window with full Node.js API access.

References

CVSS Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
6.9 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Attack Requirements (AT)
    Present
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Confidentiality (VC)
    None
  • Integrity (VI)
    Low
  • Availability (VA)
    None
  • Confidentiality (SC)
    High
  • Integrity (SI)
    None
  • Availability (SA)
    Low