CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-35565

MediumCVSS 5.4
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.47%

40th percentile - higher than 40% of all known CVEs

Summary

A Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Apache Storm UI allows topology metadata (component IDs, stream names, grouping values) to be interpolated into HTML without sanitization via parseNode() and parseEdge(). An authenticated user with topology submission rights can craft a topology containing malicious HTML/JavaScript in component identifiers, which is then executed in an operator's or administrator's browser.

Risk Assessment

In multi-tenant deployments where less-trusted users can submit topologies and the UI is accessed by administrators, this enables privilege escalation through script execution in an admin's browser session.

Recommendation

Upgrade Apache Storm to version 2.8.6. If immediate upgrade is not possible, monkey-patch the parseNode() and parseEdge() functions in the visualization JavaScript file to HTML-escape all API-supplied values (nodeId, :capacity, :latency, :component, :stream, :grouping) before interpolation into tooltip HTML, and restrict topology submission to trusted users via Nimbus ACLs.

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Original NVD description (English source)

Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via Unsanitized Topology Metadata in Apache Storm UI Versions Affected: before 2.8.6 Description: The Storm UI visualization component interpolates topology metadata including component IDs, stream names, and grouping values directly into HTML via innerHTML in parseNode() and parseEdge() without sanitization at any layer. An authenticated user with topology submission rights could craft a topology containing malicious HTML/JavaScript in component identifiers (e.g., a bolt ID containing an onerror event handler). This payload flows through Nimbus → Thrift → the Visualization API → vis.js tooltip rendering, resulting in stored cross-site scripting.  In multi-tenant deployments where topology submission is available to less-trusted users but the UI is accessed by operators or administrators, this enables privilege escalation through script execution in an admin's browser session. Mitigation: 2.x users should upgrade to 2.8.6. Users who cannot upgrade immediately should monkey-patch the parseNode() and parseEdge() functions in the visualization JavaScript file to HTML-escape all API-supplied values including nodeId, :capacity, :latency, :component, :stream, and :grouping before interpolation into tooltip HTML strings, and should additionally restrict topology submission to trusted users via Nimbus ACLs as a defense-in-depth measure. A guide on how to do this is available in the release notes of 2.8.6. Credit: This issue was discovered while investigating another report by K.

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