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Low · 3.7 CVE-2025-24978 GHSA-g8rh-fjm6-h2h9GO-2026-6446

LF Edge eKuiper: Self-XSS in External Service Creation

Published Sep 9, 2026 · Updated Sep 17, 2026 · Assigned by GHSA

Description

### Summary
A Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in external service creation allows an authenticated attacker to inject HTML/script payloads into external service names, which may execute in a user's browser when rendered by administrative web interfaces.

### Details
Prior to v2.4.0, external service registration endpoints did not strictly enforce alphanumeric character restrictions on service names. An operator or attacker with API access could register a service using a crafted name containing HTML elements (such as `<iframe src="...">`). If an administrative web UI rendered the unescaped service name, arbitrary script execution could occur in the context of the user's browser session.

### PoC
1. Create an external service JSON definition with a filename containing an XSS payload, e.g. `<iframe src="javascript:alert`1337`">.json` inside a ZIP archive.
2. In external service creation, upload the ZIP and provide the matching service name: `<iframe src="javascript:alert`1337`">`.
3. Upon service registration, the unescaped name executes when rendered in the UI context.

### Impact
Self-XSS / Stored XSS leading to potential session token leakage or unauthorized actions in the context of the affected user's browser session.

### Remediation & Patches
- **Upgrade to eKuiper >= 2.4.0**: Strict alphanumeric identifier validation (`validate.ValidateID`) is now enforced on all external service creation and update endpoints, rejecting invalid characters.

### Workarounds
- Protect eKuiper management endpoints (`POST /services`) with authentication and network-level firewalls.

### Credits
- Reported by Alexey Kosmachev, Bi.Zone (@TheMostKnown)

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES for SAP 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260916T180043-160000.1.1 SUSE-SU-2026:23863-1, SUSE-SU-2026:23855-1
SLES 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260916T180043-160000.1.1 SUSE-SU-2026:23863-1, SUSE-SU-2026:23855-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260916T180043-160000.1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21897-1

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/lf-edge/ekuiper all versions — GO-2026-6446
Go github.com/lf-edge/ekuiper/v2 < 2.4.0 2.4.0 GHSA-g8rh-fjm6-h2h9

Advisories 3

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