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GHSA-pj96-4jhv-v792:
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Overview
A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability was discovered in Gogs, affecting versions prior to 0.12.8. The vulnerability (GHSA-pj96-4jhv-v792) was published on May 31, 2022, and involves the manipulation of CSRF cookies. The issue was identified in the gogs.io/gogs Go package and was classified as a low severity security concern (GitHub Advisory).
Technical details
The vulnerability is categorized under CWE-79 (Cross-site Scripting) and allows for the manipulation of CSRF tokens through cookies. The issue was discovered in the cookie handling mechanism of Gogs, where invalid characters in CSRF tokens were not properly stripped after reading from cookies (GitHub Advisory).
Impact
According to the official advisory, there is no known practical impact beyond the possibility of a malicious user performing XSS attacks against themselves through CSRF cookie manipulation (GitHub Advisory).
Mitigation and workarounds
The vulnerability has been patched in version 0.12.8, which implements proper stripping of invalid characters from CSRF tokens after reading cookies. Users are advised to upgrade to either version 0.12.8 or the latest 0.13.0+dev. No specific workarounds are necessary if the patch is applied (GitHub Advisory).
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