Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in archivebox (CVE-2023-45815)
Summary
Cross-site scripting in archivebox (CVE-2023-45815). Confidential information can be exposed externally. Mitigation: upgrade to 0.9.0 or later.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
ArchiveBox is an open source self-hosted web archiving system. Any users who are using the wget extractor and view the content it outputs. The impact is potentially severe if you are logged in to the ArchiveBox admin site in the same browser session and view an archived malicious page designed to target your ArchiveBox instance. Malicious Javascript could potentially act using your logged-in admin credentials and add/remove/modify snapshots, add/remove/modify ArchiveBox users, and generally do anything an admin user could do. The impact is less severe for non-logged-in users, as malicious Javascript cannot modify any archives, but it can still read all the other archived content by fetching the snapshot index and iterating through it. Because all of ArchiveBox's archived content is served from the same host and port as the admin panel, when archived pages are viewed the JS executes in the same context as all the other archived pages (and the admin panel), defeating most of the browser's usual CORS/CSRF security protections and leading to this issue. Version 0.9.0 contains a patch. As a mitigation for this issue would be to disable the wget extractor by setting archivebox config --set SAVE_WGET=False, ensure you are always logged out, or serve only a static HTML version of your archive.
Source: GitHub Security Advisories (Global) NVD GitHub Advisory
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-45815 has been found in archivebox.
Confidential information can be exposed externally. CVSS score: 6.4/10.
What to do: upgrade archivebox to 0.9.0 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "archivebox CVE-2023-45815" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2023-45815 (archivebox) — CWE-79 / CVSS v3 6.4
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable)
Patched: 0.9.0 — apply immediately
Workaround: Disable the risky extractors by setting archivebox config --set SAVE_WGET=False SAVE_DOM=False, ensure you are always logged out, or serve only a [static HTML version](https:/
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
Cross-site scripting (XSS) (CWE-79) exists in archivebox.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of archivebox.
Severity: Medium (CVSS 6.4/10). Confidential information can be exposed externally.
Update to 0.9.0.
Workaround: Disable the risky extractors by setting archivebox config --set SAVE_WGET=False SAVE_DOM=False, ensure you are always logged out, or serve only a [static HTML version](https:/
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'archivebox' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
grep -r 'archivebox' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
archiveboxを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
2Apply temporary workaround mitigate
Disable the risky extractors by setting [`archivebox config --set SAVE_WGET=False SAVE_DOM=False`](https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Configuration#save_wget), ensure you are always logged out, or serve only a [static HTML version](https:/パッチが適用されるまでの応急処置として、Disable the risky extractors by setting
archivebox config --set SAVE_WGET=False SAVE_DOM=False, ensure you are always logged out, or serve only a [static HTML version](https:/ を実施。回避策の副作用 (機能低下) を確認した上で。 -
3Apply patch patch
Upgrade archivebox to 0.9.0ステージング環境で 0.9.0 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
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4Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Affected packages
References
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