Open-Source Security Intelligence

Know every vulnerability
before it knows you.

DevGuard continuously monitors your dependencies and alerts you when CVEs like this one affect your stack — with real-time threat intelligence built for developers.

Search

GHSA-xrqq-wqh4-5hg2

MediumCVSS 5.3 / 10
Published Mar 20, 2023·Last modified Apr 11, 2023
Affected Components(0)

No affected components available

Description

Update

In #88 we have determined that the bypass this security advisory was created for, was a false positive and as such we have requested that the CVE be rejected.


A bypass has been found that allows an attacker to upload an SVG with persistent XSS.

HTML elements within CDATA needed to be sanitized correctly, as we were converting them to a textnode and therefore, the library wasn't seeing them as DOM elements.

Any data within a CDATA node will now be sanitised using HTMLPurifier. We've also removed many of the HTML and MathML elements from the allowed element list, as without ForiegnObject, they're not legal within the SVG context.

Additional tests have been added to the test suite to account for these new bypasses.

Impact

This impacts all users of the svg-sanitizer library.

Patches

This issue is fixed in 0.16.0 and higher.

Workarounds

There is currently no workaround available without upgrading.

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:

Open an issue in Github Email us at daryll@enshrined.co.uk

Risk Scores
Base Score
5.3

The vulnerability can be exploited over the network without needing physical access. It is easy for an attacker to exploit this vulnerability. An attacker does not need any special privileges or access rights. No user interaction is needed for the attacker to exploit this vulnerability. The impact is confined to the system where the vulnerability exists. There is a low impact on the confidentiality of the information.

Threat Intelligence
4.9

Exploitation attempts have been detected. Elevated vigilance and prompt remediation are advised.

EPSS
N/A

Probability that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.

Exploit
Not available

We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.

Browse More

Scan your project

Continuously monitor your dependencies and get alerted when vulnerabilities like this one affect your stack.

Checkout DevGuard