CVE-2021-41101CWE-79

CORS `Access-Control-Allow-Origin` settings are too lenient

Medium · published September 30, 2021

CVSS v3.1
5.7
EPSS
1%
Percentile
52.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

wire-server is an open-source back end for Wire, a secure collaboration platform. Before version 2.106.0, the CORS ` Access-Control-Allow-Origin ` header set by `nginz` is set for all subdomains of `.wire.com` (including `wire.com`). This means that if somebody were to find an XSS vector in any of the subdomains, they could use it to talk to the Wire API using the user's Cookie. A patch does not exist, but a workaround does. To make sure that a compromise of one subdomain does not yield access to the cookie of another, one may limit the `Access-Control-Allow-Origin` header to apps that actually require the cookie (account-pages, team-settings and the webapp).

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.7 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00708 · 52.9th percentile
Weakness
CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Published
2021-09-30T19:20Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 30 SEP 19:20Z
    CORS `Access-Control-Allow-Origin` settings are too lenient
    cvelistv5