CVE-2021-41132

Description

OMERO.web provides a web based client and plugin infrastructure. In versions prior to 5.11.0, a variety of templates do not perform proper sanitization through HTML escaping. Due to the lack of sanitization and use of ``jQuery.html()``, there are a whole host of cross-site scripting possibilities with specially crafted input to a variety of fields. This issue is patched in version 5.11.0. There are no known workarounds aside from upgrading.

How to fix CVE-2021-41132

To remediate CVE-2021-41132, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.

• —upgrade to 4.4.1 or later
• —upgrade to 4.4.1 or later
• —upgrade to 5.11.0 or later
• —upgrade to 0168067accde5e635341b3c714b1d53ae92ba424 or later

Is CVE-2021-41132 being exploited?

Low — EPSS is 0.6%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.

Affected packages (4)

• from 0, < 4.4.1
• from 0, < 4.4.1
• from 0, < 5.11.0
• from 0, < 0168067accde5e635341b3c714b1d53ae92ba424 | from 0, < 5.11.0

CVSS scores

References (8)

• ADVISORYnvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-41132
• ADVISORYwww.openmicroscopy.org/security/advisories/2021-SV3/
• PATCHgithub.com/ome/omero-web
• WEBgithub.com/ome/omero-web/commit/0168067accde5e635341b3c714b1d53ae92ba424