Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Affecting afterburn-dracut package, versions <0:5.4.3-1.rhaos4.14.el9


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.15% (53rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-AFTERBURNDRACUT-7223258
  • published9 Jun 2024
  • disclosed6 Sept 2023

Introduced: 6 Sep 2023

CVE-2023-39319  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:9 afterburn-dracut to version 0:5.4.3-1.rhaos4.14.el9 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2023:5009.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream afterburn-dracut package and not the afterburn-dracut package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

The html/template package does not apply the proper rules for handling occurrences of "<script", "<!--", and "</script" within JS literals in <script> contexts. This may cause the template parser to improperly consider script contexts to be terminated early, causing actions to be improperly escaped. This could be leveraged to perform an XSS attack.

CVSS Scores

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