# CVE-2023-40183: DataEase has a vulnerability to obtain user cookies

> Attackers can upload malicious HTML files disguised as images to steal user cookies, leading to account takeover in DataEase.

- **Severity:** High 7.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 21 Sep 2023
- **Updated:** 24 Sep 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-w2r4-2r4w-fjxv

## What is CVE-2023-40183?

CVE-2023-40183 is a high-severity vulnerability in Dataease Dataease, published on 21 Sep 2023. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

DataEase is an open source data visualization and analysis tool. Prior to version 1.18.11, DataEase has a vulnerability that allows an attacker to to obtain user cookies. The program only uses the `ImageIO.read()` method to determine whether the file is an image file or not. There is no whitelisting restriction on file suffixes. This allows the attacker to synthesize the attack code into an image for uploading and change the file extension to html. The attacker may steal user cookies by accessing links. The vulnerability has been fixed in v1.18.11. There are no known workarounds.

Weakness: CWE-434 (Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-40183?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Dataease Dataease.

## How do I fix CVE-2023-40183?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-40183 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2023-40183 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2023-40183 exists.

## Other vulnerabilities in Dataease Dataease

- [CVE-2024-57707](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-57707/): Code injection in n/a (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2024-46997](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-46997/): DataEase's H2 datasource has a remote command execution risk (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2023-33963](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-33963/): DataEase data source has deserialization vulnerability (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2023-28437](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-28437/): SQL injection vulnerability due to the keyword blacklist for defending against SQL injection will be bypassed (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2022-39312](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-39312/): Dataease Mysql Data Source JDBC Connection Parameters Not Verified Leads to Deserialization Vulnerability (critical 9.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2023-40183 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2023-40183 is a high-severity vulnerability in Dataease Dataease, published on 21 Sep 2023. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2023-40183 exists.

Affected product: Dataease Dataease. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-40183/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-40183/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-40183
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-40183
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-40183

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-40183/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.