Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability CVE-2024-37063

[hakan-77]

Current Behaviour

GHSA-2r57-2mrh-ggjv

A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in versions 3.7.0 or newer of Ydata's ydata-profiling open-source library allows for payloads to be run when a maliocusly crafted report is viewed in the browser.
References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-37063
https://hiddenlayer.com/sai-security-advisory/ydata-june2024

Expected Behaviour

Secured

Data Description

N/A

Code that reproduces the bug

No response

pandas-profiling version

= 3.7.0, <= 4.8.3

Dependencies

N/A

OS

All OSes

Checklist

• There is not yet another bug report for this issue in the issue tracker
• The problem is reproducible from this bug report. This guide can help to craft a minimal bug report.
• The issue has not been resolved by the entries listed under Common Issues.

[fabclmnt]

Solved with PR #1626

Available with release 4.9.0

[jjshinobi]

@fabclmnt can you please explain how it fixes the problem mentioned in https://hiddenlayer.com/sai-security-advisory/ydata-june2024 ? This PR #1604 seems like a fix. For reference from the article:

In src/ydata_profiling/report/presentation/flavours/html/templates.py the Jinja2 template is initialized without setting autoescape to true allowing for a maliciously crafted dataset to perform an XSS attack when an HTML report is generated.

[olliestanley]

@jjshinobi @fabclmnt I can confirm this vulnerability is still present in version 4.9.0 since the PR #1626 was merged

Can this issue be reopened?