Nautobot is a Network Source of Truth and Network Automation Platform built as a web application All users of Nautobot versions earlier than 1.6.6 or 2.0.5 are potentially affected by a cross-site scripting vulnerability. Due to incorrect usage of Django's mark_safe() API when rendering certain types of user-authored content; including custom links, job buttons, and computed fields; it is possible that users with permission to create or edit these types of content could craft a malicious payload (such as JavaScript code) that would be executed when rendering pages containing this content. The maintainers have fixed the incorrect uses of mark_safe() (generally by replacing them with appropriate use of format_html() instead) to prevent such malicious data from being executed. Users on Nautobot 1.6.x LTM should upgrade to v1.6.6 and users on Nautobot 2.0.x should upgrade to v2.0.5. Appropriate object permissions can and should be applied to restrict which users are permitted to create or edit the aforementioned types of user-authored content. Other than that, there is no direct workaround available.
CVE-2023-48705
This medium-severity CVE scores 5.4 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 0.5% (43rd percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs). GitHub Security Advisory data not yet ingested — confidence will rise once GHSA publishes (typical lag: hours to days for open-source ecosystem CVEs; never for infrastructure-only CVEs).
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 5.4
- EG Score
- 5.4MEDIUMmedium confidence
- EG Risk
- 29EG Risk 29/100CISA SSVC
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity54% × 45%Exploitation1% × 40%Automatability30% × 15%CISA SSVC: Track at low or medium mission impact; Track or Attend at high (mission-essential systems).Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high. - EPSS PROB
- 0.5%
- EPSS %ILE
- 43rd
- KEV
- Not listed
CISA SSVCTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track or Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
Exploitation none (no KEV listing, exploit record or EPSS ≥ 50%) · Automatable unknown (not published for this CVE) · Technical impact partial (CVSS below 9.0). Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it: high means the affected system is essential to your organisation's mission, or its compromise could cause irreversible harm to people. CISA's decision table
Published
November 22, 2023
Last Modified
June 17, 2026
References (14)
- security-advisories@githubhttps://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.2/ref/utils/#django.utils.html.format_html
- security-advisories@githubhttps://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.2/ref/utils/#django.utils.safestring.mark_safe
- security-advisories@githubhttps://github.com/nautobot/nautobot/commit/362850f5a94689a4c75e3188bf6de826c3b012b2
- security-advisories@githubhttps://github.com/nautobot/nautobot/commit/54abe23331b6c3d0d82bf1b028c679b1d200920d
- security-advisories@githubhttps://github.com/nautobot/nautobot/pull/4832
- security-advisories@githubhttps://github.com/nautobot/nautobot/pull/4833
- security-advisories@githubhttps://github.com/nautobot/nautobot/security/advisories/GHSA-cf9f-wmhp-v4pr
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.2/ref/utils/#django.utils.html.format_html
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.2/ref/utils/#django.utils.safestring.mark_safe
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/nautobot/nautobot/commit/362850f5a94689a4c75e3188bf6de826c3b012b2
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/nautobot/nautobot/commit/54abe23331b6c3d0d82bf1b028c679b1d200920d
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/nautobot/nautobot/pull/4832
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/nautobot/nautobot/pull/4833
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/nautobot/nautobot/security/advisories/GHSA-cf9f-wmhp-v4pr
Affected Packages
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| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
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| nautobot | 1.0.0 ... 2.0.4 (86 versions) |
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