Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Affecting rust-ammonia package, versions <3.1.2-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.71% (50th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN13-RUSTAMMONIA-5694904
  • published8 Aug 2021
  • disclosed8 Aug 2021

Introduced: 8 Aug 2021

CVE-2021-38193  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:13 rust-ammonia to version 3.1.2-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream rust-ammonia package and not the rust-ammonia package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:13 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in the ammonia crate before 3.1.0 for Rust. XSS can occur because the parsing differences for HTML, SVG, and MathML are mishandled, a similar issue to CVE-2020-26870.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1