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OMERO.web exposes some unnecessary session information in the page

High
jburel published GHSA-gfp2-w5jm-955q Mar 17, 2021

Package

pip omero-web (pip)

Affected versions

<5.9.0

Patched versions

5.9.0

Description

Background

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. Some additional information being loaded is not used by the webclient and is being removed in this release.

Impact

OMERO.web before 5.9.0

Patches

5.9.0

Workarounds

No workaround

References

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Severity

High

CVE ID

CVE-2021-21376

Weaknesses