CVE-2025-13488 (GCVE-0-2025-13488)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-04 18:16 – Updated: 2025-12-04 20:00
VLAI?
Summary
Due to a regression introduced in version 3.83.0, a security header is no longer applied to certain user-uploaded content served from repositories. This may allow an authenticated attacker with repository upload privileges to exploit a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability with user context.
Severity ?
5.1 (Medium)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (XSS or 'Cross-site Scripting')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Sonatype Nexus Repository Affected: 3.83.0 , ≤ 3.86.2 (semver)
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    cpe:2.3:a:sonatype:nexus_repository_manager:3.83.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:sonatype:nexus_repository_manager:3.83.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:sonatype:nexus_repository_manager:3.84.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:sonatype:nexus_repository_manager:3.84.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:sonatype:nexus_repository_manager:3.85.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:sonatype:nexus_repository_manager:3.86.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:sonatype:nexus_repository_manager:3.86.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Credits
Seif Elsallamy / @0x21SAFE
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