SB2025031916 - Cross-site scripting in axios

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.

1) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-57965)

The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to lib/helpers/isURLSameOrigin.js does not use a URL object when determining an origin, and has a potentially unwanted setAttribute('href',href) call. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References

• https://github.com/axios/axios/commit/0a8d6e19da5b9899a2abafaaa06a75ee548597db
• https://github.com/axios/axios/issues/6351
• https://github.com/axios/axios/pull/6714
• https://github.com/axios/axios/releases/tag/v1.7.8