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Galaxy is a free, open-source system for analyzing data, authoring workflows, training and education, publishing tools, managing infrastructure, and more. The editor visualization, /visualizations end

  • Disclosed: 20.09.2024
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 12:19

Galaxy is a free, open-source system for analyzing data, authoring workflows, training and education, publishing tools, managing infrastructure, and more. The editor visualization, /visualizations endpoint, can be used to store HTML tags and trigger javascript execution upon edit operation. All supported branches of Galaxy (and more back to release_20.05) were amended with the supplied patches. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Affected software

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
Python (PyPI) galaxy-auth < 24.1.1 24.1.1
Python (PyPI) galaxy-data < 24.1.1 24.1.1

References

CVSS score 5.4/10
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Weakness (CWE)
-
Platform
Python (PyPI)
Package
galaxy-auth, galaxy-data
Disclosed
20.09.2024
Updated
11.10.2026 12:19

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - PYSEC-2024-272 - PyPA Advisory Database; CC BY 4.0

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - PYSEC-2024-273 - PyPA Advisory Database; CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: galaxy-data

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