Cross-site Scripting (XSS) The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package javassist  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-JAVASSIST-1459918
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed11 Feb 2019

Introduced: 11 Feb 2019

CVE-2019-8331  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream javassist package and not the javassist package as distributed by RHEL.

In Bootstrap before 3.4.1 and 4.3.x before 4.3.1, XSS is possible in the tooltip or popover data-template attribute.

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