GHSA-vr85-5pwx-c6gq
OMERO.web must check that the JSONP callback is a valid function
Packages
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
### Background
There is currently no escaping or validation of the `callback` parameter that can be passed to various OMERO.web endpoints that have JSONP enabled. One such endpoint is `/webclient/imgData/...`. As we only really use these endpoints with jQuery's own callback name generation [^1] it is quite difficult or even impossible to exploit this in vanilla OMERO.web. However, these metadata endpoints are likely to be used by many plugins.
[^1]: https://learn.jquery.com/ajax/working-with-jsonp/
### Impact
OMERO.web before 5.25.0
### Patches
Users should upgrade to 5.26.0 or higher
### Workarounds
None
### References
* https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2777021/do-i-need-to-sanitize-the-callback-parameter-from-a-jsonp-call
* https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1661197/what-characters-are-valid-for-javascript-variable-names
For more information
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:
Open an issue in [omero-web](https://github.com/ome/omero-web)
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References
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