ONOS vulnerable to reflected cross-site scripting

published 2023-03-14 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-3xmp-jwrr-8f4r , EUVD-2023-0857

cvss: 6.1; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.6%; EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 50%
public exploits: 0; none known

A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Open Networking Foundation ONOS from version v1.9.0 to v2.7.0 allows attackers to execute arbitrary web scripts or HTML via a crafted payload injected into the url parameter of the API documentation dashboard.

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial
Assessed: 20 mo ago (2025-02-27)

Exploit prediction

0.63% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 50% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

youtube.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mSXzzwcGMM referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.1	6.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
GitHub	3.1	6.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem	package	affected	fixed in
maven	org.onosproject:onos-archetypes	>=1.9.0, <=2.7.0	no fix listed

Classification

Weakness

CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

youtube.com /watch?v=1mSXzzwcGMM
web, exploit, third-party-advisory
edoardoottavianelli.it /
not-applicable
edoardoottavianelli.it /CVE-2023-24279
web
nvd.nist.gov /vuln/detail/CVE-2023-24279
advisory
github.com /opennetworkinglab/onos
package
edoardoottavianelli.it
web
edoardoottavianelli.it /CVE-2023-24279/index.html
web

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

Summary