Zero-Day Advisory

Fortinet Discovers OpenProject Wiki Tabnabbing Vulnerability

Summary

Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs has discovered a Tabnabbing Vulnerability in OpenProject.

OpenProject is a web-based project management system for location-independent team collaboration.

OpenProject is susceptible to Tabnabbing vulnerability. The issue occurs when the server allows attacker input "target=_blank" to HTML anchor tag without rel noopener attribute which can result in attacker controlling victim's browser.

Solutions

Users should apply the solution provided by OpenProject

Timeline

Fortinet reported the vulnerability to OpenProject on 29 November, 2019. 

OpenProject confirmed the vulnerability on 5 December, 2019. 

OpenProject released patch for the vulnerability on 11 December, 2019.

References

• https://github.com/opf/openproject/pull/7920
  

Acknowledgement

This vulnerability was discovered by Nguyen Thanh Nguyen of Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs.

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