DataEase has a vulnerability to obtain user cookies
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Code execution
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · None · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-434.
Summary
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.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- Poc
- Automatable
- Yes
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA dataease (dataease) Fixed in 1.18.11
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2023-40183
References
More Dataease vulnerabilities
- TI-2024-38037 An issue in DataEase v1 allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code via the user account and password components. CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2023-12981 SQL injection vulnerability due to the keyword blacklist for defending against SQL injection will be bypassed CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2022-18688 Dataease Mysql Data Source JDBC Connection Parameters Not Verified Leads to Deserialization Vulnerability CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2026-24677 Dataease: Redshift JDBC RCE Bypass CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.3
- TI-2026-24674 DataEase SQL Injection Vulnerability CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.3
- TI-2024-37398 DataEase has an unauthorized vulnerability CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.3
Sources
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