CVE-2025-60249
📋 TL;DR
CVE-2025-60249 is a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in vulnerability-lookup 2.16.0 that allows authenticated users to inject malicious JavaScript when creating bundles, comments, or sightings. This could lead to session hijacking, data theft, or unauthorized actions within the application. Only users with permissions to add these items on a vulnerability-lookup instance are affected.
💻 Affected Systems
- vulnerability-lookup
⚠️ Manual Verification Required
This CVE does not have specific version information in our database, so automatic vulnerability detection cannot determine if your system is affected.
Why? The CVE database entry doesn't specify which versions are vulnerable (no version ranges provided by the vendor/NVD).
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- Review the CVE details at NVD
- Check vendor security advisories for your specific version
- Test if the vulnerability is exploitable in your environment
- Consider updating to the latest version as a precaution
⚠️ Risk & Real-World Impact
Worst Case
Attackers could steal admin session cookies, perform account takeover, manipulate vulnerability data, or redirect users to malicious sites.
Likely Case
Attackers with user accounts could perform session hijacking against other users, steal sensitive data displayed in the application, or deface the interface.
If Mitigated
With proper input validation and output encoding, the risk is limited to minor data integrity issues.
🎯 Exploit Status
Exploitation requires authenticated access and knowledge of the application's input fields. No public exploit code is available.
🛠️ Fix & Mitigation
✅ Official Fix
Patch Version: Fixed in commit afa12347f1461d9481eba75ac19897e80a9c7434
Vendor Advisory: https://github.com/vulnerability-lookup/vulnerability-lookup/commit/afa12347f1461d9481eba75ac19897e80a9c7434
Restart Required: No
Instructions:
1. Update to the latest vulnerability-lookup version. 2. Apply the fix from commit afa12347f1461d9481eba75ac19897e80a9c7434. 3. Verify that innerHTML usage has been replaced with safer DOM methods and input validation is improved.
🔧 Temporary Workarounds
Input Sanitization
allImplement server-side input validation and output encoding for all user-supplied data in bundles, comments, and sightings.
🧯 If You Can't Patch
- Restrict user permissions to only trusted users who can create bundles, comments, or sightings.
- Implement a web application firewall (WAF) with XSS protection rules.
🔍 How to Verify
Check if Vulnerable:
Check if running vulnerability-lookup version 2.16.0 and review code for unsafe innerHTML usage in bundle.py, comment.py, and user.py.Check Version:
Check the application's version in the web interface or configuration files.Verify Fix Applied:
Verify that the fix commit afa12347f1461d9481eba75ac19897e80a9c7434 is applied and test XSS payloads in bundle, comment, and sighting creation fields.📡 Detection & Monitoring
Log Indicators:
- Unusual JavaScript or HTML patterns in bundle, comment, or sighting creation logs
- Multiple failed XSS attempts
Network Indicators:
- Suspicious POST requests to bundle, comment, or sighting endpoints with script tags
SIEM Query:
source="vulnerability-lookup" AND (event="bundle_create" OR event="comment_create" OR event="sighting_create") AND (message="*<script>*" OR message="*javascript:*")