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

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

- **Severity:** Medium 5.6 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 13 Mar 2024
- **Updated:** 2 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-5349-j4c9-x767

## 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 (Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-28251?

It affects 1 product.


Products: 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.

## Other vulnerabilities in pinterest querybook

- [CVE-2022-46151](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-46151/): Reflected XSS (medium 6.3)
- [CVE-2024-27103](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-27103/): Querybook Stored Cross-Site Scripting allows Privilege Elevation (medium 6.1)
- [CVE-2024-26148](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-26148/): Querybook's Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability allows Privilege Elevation (medium 6.1)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-28251 and fix it if it is affected.

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

Affected product: pinterest querybook. 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-2024-28251/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-28251/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-28251
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-28251
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-28251

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-28251/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.