CVE-2024-53268

Summary

CVE-2024-53268 is a critical vulnerability affecting Joplin, an open-source note-taking app used on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS platforms. In vulnerable versions, attackers can exploit the application's openExternal function, which lacks URI scheme filtering, to gain remote code execution in Windows environments. This issue has been resolved in version 3.0.3, and users are strongly advised to upgrade as soon as possible. At present, there are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

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