Palo Alto Networks Security Advisories / CVE-2019-1578

CVE-2019-1578 Cross Site Scripting (XSS) in MineMeld

Severity 6.1 · MEDIUM

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction REQUIRED

Scope CHANGED

Confidentiality Impact LOW

Integrity Impact LOW

Availability Impact NONE

NVD JSON

Published: 2019-06-27

Updated: 2019-06-27

Ref#: PAN-SA-2019-0015

Description

A reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in Palo Alto Networks MineMeld. (Ref CVE-2019-1578)

A remote attacker able to convince an authenticated MineMeld admin to type malicious input in the MineMeld UI could execute arbitrary JavaScript code in the admin’s browser.

This issue affects Open Source Community Supported MineMeld version 0.9.60 and earlier.

AutoFocus-Hosted MineMeld is NOT affected.

Product Status

MineMeld

Versions	Affected	Unaffected
0.9	<= 0.9.60	>= 0.9.62.

Severity: MEDIUM

CVSSv3.1 Base Score: 6.1 ( CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N )

Solution

Open Source Community Supported MineMeld version 0.9.62.

Workarounds and Mitigations

Users of affected versions who can’t upgrade to 0.9.62 or later should set the environment variable DISABLE_NEW_EXTENSIONS=1 in MineMeld service startup to prevent the execution of the vulnerable code.

Acknowledgements

Palo Alto Networks would like to thank Netskope and Veracode for reporting this issue.