VDB
KO
HIGH 7.5

GHSA-r2hr-4v48-fjv3

Nautobot's BANNER_* configuration can be used to inject arbitrary HTML content into Nautobot pages

Details

### Impact

A Nautobot user with admin privileges can modify the `BANNER_TOP`, `BANNER_BOTTOM`, and `BANNER_LOGIN` configuration settings via the `/admin/constance/config/` endpoint. Normally these settings are used to provide custom banner text at the top and bottom of all Nautobot web pages (or specifically on the login page in the case of `BANNER_LOGIN`) but it was reported that an admin user can make use of these settings to inject arbitrary HTML, potentially exposing Nautobot users to security issues such as cross-site scripting (stored XSS).

### Patches _Has the problem been patched? What versions should users upgrade to?_

Patches will be released as part of Nautobot 1.6.22 and 2.2.4.

### Workarounds _Is there a way for users to fix or remediate the vulnerability without upgrading?_

As [described in the Nautobot documentation](https://docs.nautobot.com/projects/core/en/stable/user-guide/administration/configuration/optional-settings/#administratively-configurable-settings), these settings are only configurable through the admin UI of Nautobot if they are *not* explicitly set to some non-empty value in the `nautobot_config.py` or equivalent Nautobot configuration file. Therefore, adding the following configuration to said file completely mitigates this vulnerability in both Nautobot 1.x and 2.x:

```python BANNER_LOGIN = " " BANNER_TOP = " " BANNER_BOTTOM = " " ```

or alternately (Nautobot 2.x only), if those variables are not defined explicitly in your configuration file, setting the following environment variables for the Nautobot user account serves the same purpose:

```shell NAUTOBOT_BANNER_LOGIN=" " NAUTOBOT_BANNER_TOP=" " NAUTOBOT_BANNER_BOTTOM=" " ```

Limiting all users who do not need elevated privileges to non-admin access (`is_superuser: False` and `is_staff: False`) is a partial mitigation as well.

### References

- https://github.com/nautobot/nautobot/pull/5697 - https://github.com/nautobot/nautobot/pull/5698

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Affected packages

PyPI / nautobot
Introduced in: 0 Fixed in: 1.6.22
Fix pip install --upgrade 'nautobot>=1.6.22'
PyPI / nautobot
Introduced in: 2.0.0 Fixed in: 2.2.4
Fix pip install --upgrade 'nautobot>=2.2.4'

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