# CVE-2024-47531: Scout contains insufficient output escaping of attachment names

> Attackers can trick users into downloading malicious files with arbitrary extensions due to insufficient filename sanitization, potentially compromising devices.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.6 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 30 Sep 2024
- **Updated:** 30 Sep 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-24xv-q29v-3h6r

## What is CVE-2024-47531?

CVE-2024-47531 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Clinical-Genomics scout, published on 30 Sep 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

Scout is a web-based visualizer for VCF-files. Due to the lack of sanitization in the filename, it is possible bypass intended file extension and make users download malicious files with any extension. With malicious content injected inside the file data and users unknowingly downloading it and opening may lead to the compromise of users' devices or data. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.89.

Weakness: CWE-116 (Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-47531?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Clinical-Genomics Scout.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-47531?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-47531 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-47531 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-47531 exists.

## Other vulnerabilities in Clinical-Genomics scout

- [CVE-2022-1592](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-1592/): Server-Side Request Forgery in scout in clinical-genomics/scout (critical 9.4)
- [CVE-2022-1554](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-1554/): Path Traversal due to `send_file` call in clinical-genomics/scout (medium 6.8)
- [CVE-2024-47530](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-47530/): Scout contains an Open Redirect on Login via `next` (medium 5.4)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-47531 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-47531 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Clinical-Genomics scout, published on 30 Sep 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-47531 exists.

Affected product: Clinical-Genomics scout. 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-2024-47531/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-47531/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-47531
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-47531
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-47531

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-47531/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.