CVE-2026-55081
An attacker able to get a user to open a crafted OpenAPI HTML URL could execute JavaScript in that user's browser in the DHIS2 origin.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.44%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
DHIS2 is a flexible information system for data capture, management, validation, analytics and visualization. The DHIS2 OpenAPI HTML endpoint reflected values from the `scope` query parameter into the generated HTML document without sufficient sanitization. A crafted `scope` value could be rendered as active HTML or JavaScript in the OpenAPI documentation page. An attacker able to get a user to open a crafted OpenAPI HTML URL could execute JavaScript in that user's browser in the DHIS2 origin. Affected versions: DHIS2 2.42 and 2.43 before the 2026-06-09 security patch releases, and the development branch for DHIS2 2.44 before the fix was merged. Patched in 2.42.5.1, 2.43.0.1, the 2.42 and 2.43 line branches, and the 2.44 development branch.
- CVSS 4.0
- 7.3 HIGHCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M
- EPSS
- 0.44% probability · 37th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Source
- security-advisories@github.com
References
- https://github.com/dhis2/dhis2-core/pull/24158
- https://github.com/dhis2/dhis2-core/pull/24159
- https://github.com/dhis2/dhis2-core/pull/24160
- https://github.com/dhis2/dhis2-core/pull/24161
- https://github.com/dhis2/dhis2-core/pull/24162
- https://github.com/dhis2/dhis2-core/security/advisories/GHSA-6785-hj47-c27h
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.