CVE-2024-23345: Nautobot has XSS potential in rendered Markdown fields

7.1 CVSS

Description

Nautobot is a Network Source of Truth and Network Automation Platform built as a web application. All users of Nautobot versions earlier than 1.6.10 or 2.1.2 are potentially impacted by a cross-site scripting vulnerability. Due to inadequate input sanitization, any user-editable fields that support Markdown rendering, including are potentially susceptible to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via maliciously crafted data. This issue is fixed in Nautobot versions 1.6.10 and 2.1.2.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-23345

CVSS Base Severity: HIGH

CVSS Base Score: 7.1

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

Problem Types

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

Affected Products

Vendor: nautobot

Product: nautobot

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.3% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 53.14% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-06-07 (when was this score calculated)

Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC)

SSVC Exploitation: none

SSVC Technical Impact: partial

SSVC Automatable: false

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-23345
https://github.com/nautobot/nautobot/security/advisories/GHSA-v4xv-795h-rv4h
https://github.com/nautobot/nautobot/pull/5133
https://github.com/nautobot/nautobot/pull/5134
https://github.com/nautobot/nautobot/commit/17effcbe84a72150c82b138565c311bbee357e80
https://github.com/nautobot/nautobot/commit/64312a4297b5ca49b6cdedf477e41e8e4fd61cce

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