Vulnerability · Published Oct 4, 2023 · Assigned by GitHub_M

CVE-2023-43799The Altair Desktop Client Does Not Sanitize External URLs before passing them to the underlying system

Medium 5.0

In plain English

A medium-severity improper input validation in altair from altair-graphql. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 12% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.0Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 87.8% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Altair is a GraphQL Client. Prior to version 5.2.5, the Altair GraphQL Client Desktop Application does not sanitize external URLs before passing them to the underlying system. Moreover, Altair GraphQL Client also does not isolate the context of the renderer process. This affects versions of the software running on MacOS, Windows, and Linux. Version 5.2.5 fixes this issue.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
altair-graphql	altair	< 5.2.5

Weakness: CWE-20 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References

https://github.com/altair-graphql/altair/security/advisories/GHSA-9m5v-vrf6-fmvm x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/altair-graphql/altair/releases/tag/v5.2.5 x_refsource_MISC