CVE-2024-28251 Cross-site websocket hijacking in Querybook

Medium 5.6 Published 13 Mar 2024 Updated 2 Aug 2024

Attackers can hijack websockets to read, edit, or delete user datadocs due to permissive CORS settings in Querybook.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: Not needed
Attackable: Over the internet
Victim action needed: Not needed
Fix: None listed

What is CVE-2024-28251?

CVE-2024-28251 is a medium-severity vulnerability in pinterest querybook, published on 13 Mar 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Querybook is a Big Data Querying UI, combining collocated table metadata and a simple notebook interface. Querybook's datadocs functionality works by using a Websocket Server. The client talks to this WSS whenever updating/deleting/reading any cells as well as for watching the live status of query executions. Currently the CORS setting allows all origins, which could result in cross-site websocket hijacking and allow attackers to read/edit/remove datadocs of the user. This issue has been addressed in version 3.32.0. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Weakness: CWE-345

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-28251?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Pinterest Querybook.

How do I fix CVE-2024-28251?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-28251 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2024-28251 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-28251 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-5349-j4c9-x767.