Advisories for Pypi/Omero-Web package

OMERO.web before 5.25.0

OMERO.web before 5.6.3 optionally allows sensitive data elements (e.g., a session key) to be passed as URL query parameters. If an attacker tricks a user into clicking a malicious link in OMERO.web, the information in the query parameters may be exposed in the Referer header seen by the target. Information in the URL path such as object IDs may also be exposed.

OMERO.web provides a web based client and plugin infrastructure., a variety of templates do not perform proper sanitization through HTML escaping. Due to the lack of sanitization and use of jQuery.html(), there are a whole host of cross-site scripting possibilities with specially crafted input to a variety of fields. This issue is patched There are no known workarounds aside from upgrading.

OMERO.web is open source Django-based software for managing microscopy imaging. OMERO.web supports redirection to a given URL after performing login or switching the group context. These URLs are not validated, allowing redirection to untrusted sites. OMERO.web adds URL validation before redirecting. External URLs are not considered valid, unless specified in the omero.web.redirect_allowed_hosts setting.

OMERO.web is open source Django-based software for managing microscopy imaging. OMERO.web loads various information about the current user such as their id, name and the groups they are in, and these are available on the main webclient pages. This represents an information exposure vulnerability. Some additional information being loaded is not used by the webclient and is being removed in this release. This is fixed