Vulnerability · Published Feb 24, 2023 · Assigned by VulDB

CVE-2023-1004MarkText WSH JScript code injection

Medium 5.3

In plain English

A medium-severity code injection in MarkText. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 32% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.3Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.4%top 68.2% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

A vulnerability has been found in MarkText up to 0.17.1 on Windows and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component WSH JScript Handler. The manipulation leads to code injection. Local access is required to approach this attack. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The identifier VDB-221737 was assigned to this vulnerability.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	MarkText	0.17.00.17.1

Weakness: CWE-94 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

References

https://vuldb.com/?id.221737 vdb-entry, technical-description
https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.221737 signature, permissions-required
https://github.com/marktext/marktext/issues/3575 exploit, issue-tracking