CVE-2024-38503: Apache Syncope: HTML tags can be injected into Console or Enduser text fields

[Francesco Chicchiriccò <ilgrosso () apache org>]

Severity: moderate

Affected versions:

- Apache Syncope 2.1 through 2.1.14
- Apache Syncope 3.0 through 3.0.7

Description:

When editing a user, group or any object in the Syncope Console, HTML tags could be added to any text field and could 
lead to potential exploits.
The same vulnerability was found in the Syncope Enduser, when editing “Personal Information” or “User Requests”.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 3.0.8, which fixes this issue.

Credit:

Basalt IT-Security Team (finder)

References:

https://syncope.apache.org/
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-38503