CVE-2021-27907

Advisory

Apache Superset up to and including 0.38.0 allowed the creation of a Markdown component on a Dashboard page for describing chart's related information. Abusing this functionality, a malicious user could inject javascript code executing unwanted action in the context of the user's browser. The javascript code will be automatically executed (Stored XSS) when a legitimate user surfs on the dashboard page. The vulnerability is exploitable creating a div section and embedding in it a svg element with javascript code.

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Resources

• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-w358-rj93-r5qv
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-27907
• https://github.com/apache/superset
• https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/apache-superset/PYSEC-2021-127.yaml
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r09293fb09f1d617f0d2180c42210e739e2211f8da9bc5c1873bea67a%40%3C
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r09293fb09f1d617f0d2180c42210e739e2211f8da9bc5c1873bea67a@%3Cde
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-27907
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r09293fb09f1d617f0d2180c42210e739e2211f8da9bc5c1873bea67a%40%3Cdev.superset.apache.org%3E
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r09293fb09f1d617f0d2180c42210e739e2211f8da9bc5c1873bea67a@%3Cdev.superset.apache.org%3E