Cross-site Scripting (XSS) The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package stax-ex  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-STAXEX-1461361
  • 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 stax-ex package and not the stax-ex 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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