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This CVE describes an unsafe Gerrit configuration shipped through the OpenStack puppet-gerrit module. It treated text/html review content as safe, creating a cross-site scripting risk. An attacker could use a crafted review to run browser-side script in a Gerrit user’s session if the deployment used that configuration. Exposure is most likely in Gerrit servers managed by OpenStack-infra puppet-gerrit with the vulnerable safe-mimetype configuration. Generic Gerrit exposure is not established by the provided sources. Treat this as a targeted configuration flaw with moderate urgency. Prioritize if Gerrit supports critical code review workflows or privileged developer sessions, because XSS in that context can affect source-code governance. Mitigation focus: Update puppet-gerrit to a revision containing commit 8573c2ee172f66c1667de49685c88fdc8883ca8b.; Remove text/html from Gerrit safe MIME type configuration if present.; Redeploy Puppet-managed Gerrit configuration after applying the fix..
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- https://github.com/openstack-infra/puppet-gerrit/commit/8573c2ee172f66c1667de49685c88fdc8883ca8bCVE reference · x_refsource_CONFIRM
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