Stored cross-site scripting in Cronicle admin Activity Log
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- Required
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Cross-site scripting
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-79.
Summary
Cronicle before 0.9.119 inserts a user's full name into the administrator Activity Log as HTML without encoding it (CWE-79). An authenticated non-administrator can set a name containing script, and a line break bypasses the input filter, so the script runs when an administrator opens the log. When free accounts are enabled, an anonymous attacker can plant the name during self-registration. The script can take over an administrator session and lead to command execution through privileged Cronicle features.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-10-27
Description from the CNA
Cronicle is a multi-server task scheduler and runner, with a web based front-end UI. Prior to 0.9.119, the administrator Activity Log in htdocs/js/pages/admin/Activity.js concatenates the attacker-controlled item.user.full_name value into HTML without applying encode_entities and inserts the result through this.div.html. The bundled pixl-server-user input filter can be bypassed by a tag containing a line break because its regular expression does not match newlines. An authenticated non-administrator can update the attacker's own name through /api/user/update using a valid session and current password; when free_accounts is enabled, an anonymous attacker can instead plant the name during self-registration. The stored name executes script in an administrator's session when the Activity Log is opened, enabling administrator takeover and subsequent command execution through privileged Cronicle features. This issue is fixed in version 0.9.119.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- Poc
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Total
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
Upgrade Cronicle to version 0.9.119, which fixes this issue.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-10-27
- Fix · CNA Cronicle (jhuckaby) Fixed in 0.9.119
Timeline
- 2026-10-13 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-55562
- 2026-10-14 Priority changed: MEDIUM → LOW
- 2026-10-18 CISA SSVC decision points changed
- 2026-10-18 Priority changed: LOW → HIGH
References
More jhuckaby vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-81575 Cronicle lets non-admin users set run-as uid and gid in events CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
- TI-2026-85660 Environment variable injection in Cronicle event params CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.0
Sources
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