Bug 1215599 (CVE-2023-43091)

Summary:	VUL-0: CVE-2023-43091: gnome-maps: code injection attack via its service.json
Product:	[Novell Products] SUSE Security Incidents	Reporter:	Robert Frohl <rfrohl>
Component:	Incidents	Assignee:	openSUSE GNOME <os.gnome.maintainers>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:	Security Team bot <security-team>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P3 - Medium	CC:	security-team
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
URL:	https://smash.suse.de/issue/379648/
Whiteboard:
Found By:	Security Response Team	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---

Description Robert Frohl 2023-09-22 07:11:30 UTC

CVE-2023-43091

GNOME Maps is vulnerable to a code injection attack (similar to XSS) 
via its service.json configuration file downloaded from 
https://static.gnome.org/gis.gnome.org/v1/service.json. If the 
configuration file is malicious, it may execute arbitrary code.

Affected versions: 43 prior to 43.7, 44 prior to 44.4

Discoverer/Credit: Michael Evans

References, additional information:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-maps/-/issues/588
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-maps/-/commit/d26cd774d524404ef7784e6808f551de83de4bea

References:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2023-43091
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2239091

Comment 1 Robert Frohl 2023-09-22 07:26:06 UTC

openSUSE:Factory already fixed, openSUSE:Backports:SLE-15-SP* on older, unaffected version.