CVE-2023-1932 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2023-1932

Hibernate-validator: rendering of invalid html with safehtml leads to html injection and xss

Vulnerability Description

A flaw was found in hibernate-validator's 'isValid' method in the org.hibernate.validator.internal.constraintvalidators.hv.SafeHtmlValidator class, which can be bypassed by omitting the tag ending in a less-than character. Browsers may render an invalid html, allowing HTML injection or Cross-Site-Scripting (XSS) attacks.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

  • Red Hat would like to thank Christian Kistner (SySS GmbH) and Moritz Bechler (SySS GmbH) for reporting this issue.

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

A-MQ Clients 2, Cryostat 2, Red Hat AMQ Broker 7, Red Hat A-MQ Online, Red Hat BPM Suite 6, Red Hat CodeReady Studio 12, Red Hat Data Grid 8, Red Hat Decision Manager 7, Red Hat Fuse 7, Red Hat JBoss BRMS 5, Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 7, Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6, Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5, Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6, Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7, Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Continuous Delivery, Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6, Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6, Red Hat JBoss Operations Network 3, Red Hat JBoss SOA Platform 5, Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton), Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens), Red Hat Process Automation 7, Red Hat Satellite 6, Red Hat Single Sign-On 7, Red Hat support for Spring Boot, streams for Apache Kafka
Vulnerable Versions:
Unknown

Timeline

Official Publish: November 7th, 2024
Last Modified: November 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.