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CVE-2024-23345: Nautobot has XSS potential in rendered Markdown fields

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-01-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Nautobot is a Network Source of Truth and Network Automation Platform built as a web application. All users of Nautobot versions earlier than 1.6.10 or 2.1.2 are potentially impacted by a cross-site scripting vulnerability. Due to inadequate input sanitization, any user-editable fields that support Markdown rendering, including are potentially susceptible to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via maliciously crafted data. This issue is fixed in Nautobot versions 1.6.10 and 2.1.2.

Affected products

• nautobot: before 1.6.10; from 2.0.0 before 2.1.2 — fixed in 1.6.10, 2.1.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: nautobot 1.6.10, 2.1.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/nautobot/nautobot/commit/17effcbe84a72150c82b138565c311bbee357e80
• https://github.com/nautobot/nautobot/commit/64312a4297b5ca49b6cdedf477e41e8e4fd61cce
• https://github.com/nautobot/nautobot/pull/5133
• https://github.com/nautobot/nautobot/pull/5134
• https://github.com/nautobot/nautobot/security/advisories/GHSA-v4xv-795h-rv4h
• https://github.com/nautobot/nautobot/commit/17effcbe84a72150c82b138565c311bbee357e80
• https://github.com/nautobot/nautobot/commit/64312a4297b5ca49b6cdedf477e41e8e4fd61cce
• https://github.com/nautobot/nautobot/pull/5133
• https://github.com/nautobot/nautobot/pull/5134
• https://github.com/nautobot/nautobot/security/advisories/GHSA-v4xv-795h-rv4h

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