# CVE-2024-55630: DOM Clobbering leads to temporary DOS in the note viewer in Joplin

- Severity: CVSS 3.3 (Low), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 3.2.8
- Published: 2025-02-07 · Updated: 2025-02-10

## Affected

- laurent22 joplin: fixed in 3.2.8

## Description

Joplin is a free, open source note taking and to-do application, which can handle a large number of notes organised into notebooks. Joplin's HTML sanitizer allows the `name` attribute to be specified. If `name` is set to the same value as an existing `document` property (e.g. `querySelector`), that property is replaced with the element. This vulnerability's only known impact is denial of service. The note viewer fails to refresh until closed and re-opened with a different note. This issue has been addressed in version 3.2.8 and all users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on laurent22 joplin, upgrade to a fixed version (3.2.8) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/security/advisories/GHSA-5cch-jr52-qffh
- https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/commit/e70efcbd60ce62f06e77c183b362c74e636c02d9
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOM_clobbering

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