6.5
MEDIUM
CVE-2024-27287
"ESPHome Dashboard Configuration API Cross-Site Scripting and Session Cookie Exfiltration"
Description

ESPHome is a system to control your ESP8266/ESP32 for Home Automation systems. Starting in version 2023.12.9 and prior to version 2024.2.2, editing the configuration file API in dashboard component of ESPHome version 2023.12.9 (command line installation and Home Assistant add-on) serves unsanitized data with `Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8`, allowing a remote authenticated user to inject arbitrary web script and exfiltrate session cookies via Cross-Site scripting. It is possible for a malicious authenticated user to inject arbitrary Javascript in configuration files using a POST request to the /edit endpoint, the configuration parameter allows to specify the file to write. To trigger the XSS vulnerability, the victim must visit the page` /edit?configuration=[xss file]`. Abusing this vulnerability a malicious actor could perform operations on the dashboard on the behalf of a logged user, access sensitive information, create, edit and delete configuration files and flash firmware on managed boards. In addition to this, cookies are not correctly secured, allowing the exfiltration of session cookie values. Version 2024.2.2 contains a patch for this issue.

INFO

Published Date :

March 6, 2024, 7:15 p.m.

Last Modified :

March 6, 2024, 9:42 p.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

Yes !

Impact Score :

5.2

Exploitability Score :

1.2
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2024-27287 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Esphome esphome_firmware
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL Resource
https://github.com/esphome/esphome/commit/37d2b3c7977a4ccbec59726ca7549cb776661455
https://github.com/esphome/esphome/security/advisories/GHSA-9p43-hj5j-96h5

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The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2024-27287 vulnerability over time.

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  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CVE Received by [email protected]

    Mar. 06, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description ESPHome is a system to control your ESP8266/ESP32 for Home Automation systems. Starting in version 2023.12.9 and prior to version 2024.2.2, editing the configuration file API in dashboard component of ESPHome version 2023.12.9 (command line installation and Home Assistant add-on) serves unsanitized data with `Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8`, allowing a remote authenticated user to inject arbitrary web script and exfiltrate session cookies via Cross-Site scripting. It is possible for a malicious authenticated user to inject arbitrary Javascript in configuration files using a POST request to the /edit endpoint, the configuration parameter allows to specify the file to write. To trigger the XSS vulnerability, the victim must visit the page` /edit?configuration=[xss file]`. Abusing this vulnerability a malicious actor could perform operations on the dashboard on the behalf of a logged user, access sensitive information, create, edit and delete configuration files and flash firmware on managed boards. In addition to this, cookies are not correctly secured, allowing the exfiltration of session cookie values. Version 2024.2.2 contains a patch for this issue.
    Added Reference GitHub, Inc. https://github.com/esphome/esphome/security/advisories/GHSA-9p43-hj5j-96h5 [No types assigned]
    Added Reference GitHub, Inc. https://github.com/esphome/esphome/commit/37d2b3c7977a4ccbec59726ca7549cb776661455 [No types assigned]
    Added CWE GitHub, Inc. CWE-79
    Added CVSS V3.1 GitHub, Inc. AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
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