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High · 7.6 Public exploit CVE-2024-42346 EUVD-2024-39564GHSA-x6w7-3gwf-qr9rPYSEC-2024-272PYSEC-2024-273

Stored Cross Site Scripting (Stored XSS) in Galaxy

Published Sep 20, 2024 · Updated Sep 20, 2024 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Vendor: galaxyproject Product: galaxy Package: galaxy-auth Package: galaxy-data Ecosystem: PyPI

Description

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
galaxyproject galaxy < 24.1.1 —

Public exploits

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GitHub 1 repository

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Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI galaxy-auth < 24.1.1 24.1.1 PYSEC-2024-272
PyPI galaxy-data < 24.1.1 24.1.1 PYSEC-2024-273

References