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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.9

CVE-2024-47882 json

OpenRefine's error page lacks escaping, leading to potential Cross-site Scripting on import of malicious project

published 2024-10-24 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-3067 , GHSA-j8hp-f2mj-586g

cvss
5.9
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 43%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

OpenRefine is a free, open source tool for working with messy data. Prior to version 3.8.3, the built-in "Something went wrong!" error page includes the exception message and exception traceback without escaping HTML tags, enabling injection into the page if an attacker can reliably produce an error with an attacker-influenced message. It appears that the only way to reach this code in OpenRefine itself is for an attacker to somehow convince a victim to import a malicious file, which may be difficult. However, out-of-tree extensions may add their own calls to `respondWithErrorPage`. Version 3.8.3 has a fix for this issue.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.openrefine:openrefine 3.8.3
  • OpenRefine OpenRefine 3.8.3
  • openrefine Debian 12 3.6.2-2+deb12u3
  • openrefine Debian 13 3.8.7-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2024-47882

  • openrefine Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS 3.5.2-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
  • openrefine Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS 3.7.7-1ubuntu0.1~esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2024-47882

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.51% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 43% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/security/advisories/GHSA-j8hp-f2mj-586g referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
GitHub 3.1 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
NVD 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.openrefine:openrefine
<3.8.3
3.8.3

Affected products

  • OpenRefine OpenRefine

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation
  • CWE-81 Improper Neutralization of Script in an Error Message Web Page

References

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.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.