CVE-2023-48705nautobot has XSS potential in custom links, job buttons, and computed fields
- 7.1HighCVSS base score
- 0.54%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 54% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Nautobot is a Network Source of Truth and Network Automation Platform built as a web application All users of Nautobot versions earlier than 1.6.6 or 2.0.5 are potentially affected by a cross-site scripting vulnerability. Due to incorrect usage of Django's `mark_safe()` API when rendering certain types of user-authored content; including custom links, job buttons, and computed fields; it is possible that users with permission to create or edit these types of content could craft a malicious payload (such as JavaScript code) that would be executed when rendering pages containing this content. The maintainers have fixed the incorrect uses of `mark_safe()` (generally by replacing them with appropriate use of `format_html()` instead) to prevent such malicious data from being executed. Users on Nautobot 1.6.x LTM should upgrade to v1.6.6 and users on Nautobot 2.0.x should upgrade to v2.0.5. Appropriate object permissions can and should be applied to restrict which users are permitted to create or edit the aforementioned types of user-authored content. Other than that, there is no direct workaround available.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 5 days later
· 5 days later
Published
- 8 months later
· 8 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.54% · top 54% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.1.
Affected products
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPInautobotGHSA-cf9f-wmhp-v4pr (opens in a new tab)
References
References7
- https://github.com/nautobot/nautobot/security/advisories/GHSA-cf9f-wmhp-v4pr (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/nautobot/nautobot/pull/4832 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/nautobot/nautobot/pull/4833 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/nautobot/nautobot/commit/362850f5a94689a4c75e3188bf6de826c3b012b2 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/nautobot/nautobot/commit/54abe23331b6c3d0d82bf1b028c679b1d200920d (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.2/ref/utils/#django.utils.html.format_html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.2/ref/utils/#django.utils.safestring.mark_safe (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2023-0179 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-cf9f-wmhp-v4pr (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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