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Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

CVE-2024-43799

Medium
4.7/10

Summary

Send is a library for streaming files from the file system as an HTTP response. Send passes untrusted user input to "SendStream.redirect()" which executes untrusted code. This vulnerability affects send versions through 0.18.0, and 1.0.0-beta.1 through 1.0.0.

  • HIGH
  • NETWORK
  • LOW
  • CHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • NONE

CWE-79 - Cross Site Scripting

Cross-Site Scripting, commonly referred to as XSS, is the most dominant class of vulnerabilities. It allows an attacker to inject malicious code into a pregnable web application and victimize its users. The exploitation of such a weakness can cause severe issues such as account takeover, and sensitive data exfiltration. Because of the prevalence of XSS vulnerabilities and their high rate of exploitation, it has remained in the OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities for years.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published