CVE-2026-35565

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-35565
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-35565.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-35565
Aliases
Published
2026-04-13T09:10:17.367Z
Modified
2026-07-15T01:49:00.485255092Z
Severity
  • 5.4 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
Apache Storm UI: Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via Unsanitized Topology Metadata in Storm UI
Details

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.

Database specific
{
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-79"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/35xxx/CVE-2026-35565.json",
    "cna_assigner": "apache",
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "fixed": "2.8.6"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "source": "DESCRIPTION",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "fixed": "2.8.6"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/apache/storm

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/apache/storm
Events
Database specific
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:apache:storm:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "source": "CPE_RANGE",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "2.0.0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "2.8.6"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

v2.*
v2.0.0
v2.5.0
v2.6.1
v2.6.3
v2.6.4
v2.7.0
v2.7.1
v2.8.0
v2.8.1
v2.8.2
v2.8.3
v2.8.4
v2.8.5

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-35565.json"