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PYSEC-2024-272

Vulnerability from pysec - Published: 2024-09-20 19:15 - Updated: 2026-05-20 09:19

Details

Galaxy is a free, open-source system for analyzing data, authoring workflows, training and education, publishing tools, managing infrastructure, and more. The editor visualization, /visualizations endpoint, can be used to store HTML tags and trigger javascript execution upon edit operation. All supported branches of Galaxy (and more back to release_20.05) were amended with the supplied patches. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Severity

5.4 (Medium)


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

Impacted products

Name	purl
galaxy-auth	pkg:pypi/galaxy-auth

Aliases

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  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "PyPI",
        "name": "galaxy-auth",
        "purl": "pkg:pypi/galaxy-auth"
      },
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            },
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              "fixed": "24.1.1"
            }
          ],
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        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "20.5.0",
        "20.9.0",
        "21.9.0",
        "22.1.1",
        "23.0.1",
        "23.0.2",
        "23.0.3",
        "23.0.4",
        "23.0.5",
        "23.0.6",
        "23.1.1",
        "23.1.2",
        "23.1.3",
        "23.1.4",
        "23.1.dev0",
        "23.2.1",
        "24.0.0",
        "24.0.1",
        "24.0.2",
        "24.0.3"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2024-42346",
    "GHSA-x6w7-3gwf-qr9r"
  ],
  "details": "Galaxy is a free, open-source system for analyzing data, authoring workflows, training and education, publishing tools, managing infrastructure, and more. The editor visualization, /visualizations endpoint, can be used to store HTML tags and trigger javascript execution upon edit operation. All supported branches of Galaxy (and more back to release_20.05) were amended with the supplied patches. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.",
  "id": "PYSEC-2024-272",
  "modified": "2026-05-20T09:19:00.780385Z",
  "published": "2024-09-20T19:15:15.547Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "FIX",
      "url": "https://github.com/galaxyproject/galaxy/security/advisories/GHSA-x6w7-3gwf-qr9r"
    }
  ],
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ]
}

CVE-2024-42346 (GCVE-0-2024-42346)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-09-20 18:53 – Updated: 2024-09-20 20:09

Title

Stored Cross Site Scripting (Stored XSS) in Galaxy

Summary

Severity

7.6 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-09-20 20:09 UTC

CWE

CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Assigner

GitHub_M mitre root

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://github.com/galaxyproject/galaxy/security/…	x_refsource_CONFIRM

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
galaxyproject	galaxy	Affected: < 24.1.1

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                "timestamp": "2024-09-20T20:09:17.107200Z",
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        }
      ],
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            "attackComplexity": "LOW",
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