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CVE-2023-22735

User uploads proxied from S3 lack `Content-Security-Policy` headers, may be served with `Content-Disposition: inline` in zulip

4.4 Medium

Zulip is an open-source team collaboration tool. In versions of zulip prior to commit 2f6c5a8 but after commit 04cf68b users could upload files with arbitrary Content-Type which would be served from the Zulip hostname with Content-Disposition: inline and no Content-Security-Policy header, allowing them to trick other users into executing arbitrary Javascript in the context of the Zulip application. Among other things, this enables session theft. Only deployments which use the S3 storage (not the local-disk storage) are affected, and only deployments which deployed commit 04cf68b45ebb5c03247a0d6453e35ffc175d55da, which has only been in main, not any numbered release. Users affected should upgrade from main again to deploy this fix. Switching from S3 storage to the local-disk storage would nominally mitigate this, but is likely more involved than upgrading to the latest main which addresses the issue.

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
Privileges needed
Low
User interaction
Required

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None

Exploit likelihood

0.52%Down 0.4 points since Feb 8, 2023
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

CVE List Score used 4.4

User uploads proxied from S3 lack `Content-Security-Policy` headers, may be served with `Content-Disposition: inline` in zulip

Zulip is an open-source team collaboration tool. In versions of zulip prior to commit 2f6c5a8 but after commit 04cf68b users could upload files with arbitrary Content-Type which would be served from the Zulip hostname with Content-Disposition: inline and no Content-Security-Policy header, allowing them to trick other users into executing arbitrary Javascript in the context of the Zulip application. Among other things, this enables session theft. Only deployments which use the S3 storage (not the local-disk storage) are affected, and only deployments which deployed commit 04cf68b45ebb5c03247a0d6453e35ffc175d55da, which has only been in main, not any numbered release. Users affected should upgrade from main again to deploy this fix. Switching from S3 storage to the local-disk storage would nominally mitigate this, but is likely more involved than upgrading to the latest main which addresses the issue.

Record
CVE-2023-22735
CVSS 3.1
4.4 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Weakness
CWE-436
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2023-26855 4.4

Zulip is an open-source team collaboration tool. In versions of zulip prior to commit 2f6c5a8 but after commit 04cf68b users could upload files with arbitrary Content-Type which would be served from the Zulip hostname with Content-Disposition: inline and no Content-Security-Policy header, allowing them to trick other users into executing arbitrary Javascript in the context of the Zulip application. Among other things, this enables session theft. Only deployments which use the S3 storage (not the local-disk storage) are affected, and only deployments which deployed commit 04cf68b45ebb5c03247a0d6453e35ffc175d55da, which has only been in main, not any numbered release. Users affected should upgrade from main again to deploy this fix. Switching from S3 storage to the local-disk storage would nominally mitigate this, but is likely more involved than upgrading to the latest main which addresses the issue.

Record
EUVD-2023-26855
CVSS 3.1
4.4 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Updated
2026-11-02
NVD 4.4

Zulip is an open-source team collaboration tool. In versions of zulip prior to commit 2f6c5a8 but after commit 04cf68b users could upload files with arbitrary Content-Type which would be served from the Zulip hostname with Content-Disposition: inline and no Content-Security-Policy header, allowing them to trick other users into executing arbitrary Javascript in the context of the Zulip application. Among other things, this enables session theft. Only deployments which use the S3 storage (not the local-disk storage) are affected, and only deployments which deployed commit 04cf68b45ebb5c03247a0d6453e35ffc175d55da, which has only been in main, not any numbered release. Users affected should upgrade from main again to deploy this fix. Switching from S3 storage to the local-disk storage would nominally mitigate this, but is likely more involved than upgrading to the latest main which addresses the issue.

Record
CVE-2023-22735
CVSS 3.1
4.4 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS 3.1
4.6 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Weakness
CWE-436
Updated
2026-11-02
OSV 4.4

User uploads proxied from S3 lack `Content-Security-Policy` headers, may be served with `Content-Disposition: inline` in zulip

Zulip is an open-source team collaboration tool. In versions of zulip prior to commit 2f6c5a8 but after commit 04cf68b users could upload files with arbitrary Content-Type which would be served from the Zulip hostname with Content-Disposition: inline and no Content-Security-Policy header, allowing them to trick other users into executing arbitrary Javascript in the context of the Zulip application. Among other things, this enables session theft. Only deployments which use the S3 storage (not the local-disk storage) are affected, and only deployments which deployed commit 04cf68b45ebb5c03247a0d6453e35ffc175d55da, which has only been in main, not any numbered release. Users affected should upgrade from main again to deploy this fix. Switching from S3 storage to the local-disk storage would nominally mitigate this, but is likely more involved than upgrading to the latest main which addresses the issue.

Record
CVE-2023-22735
CVSS 3.1
4.4 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Weakness
CWE-436
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

History

History
RecordedChangedSources
first indexedCVE List, EUVD, NVD, OSV

Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2023-22735 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 4.4) in Zulip, published February 7, 2023. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.52%, the 44th percentile. No source names a fixed version.

References

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