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RUSTSEC-2021-0074

Published Jul 8, 2021·Last modified Nov 8, 2023
Affected Components(0)

No affected components available

Description

Affected versions of this crate did not account for namespace-related parsing differences between HTML, SVG, and MathML. Even if the svg and math elements are not allowed, the underlying HTML parser still treats them differently. Running cleanup without accounting for these differing namespaces resulted in an "impossible" DOM, which appeared "safe" when examining the DOM tree, but when serialized and deserialized, could be exploited to inject arbitrary markup.

To exploit this, the application using this library must allow a tag that is parsed as raw text in HTML. These elements are:

  • title
  • textarea
  • xmp
  • iframe
  • noembed
  • noframes
  • plaintext
  • noscript
  • style
  • script

Applications that do not explicitly allow any of these tags should not be affected, since none are allowed by default.

Risk Scores
Base Score
0.0

Measures severity based on intrinsic characteristics of the vulnerability, independent of environment.

Threat Intelligence
0.0

No exploitation activity has been observed at this time. Continue routine monitoring.

EPSS
0.70%

The exploit probability is very low. The vulnerability is unlikely to be exploited in the next 30 days.

Exploit
Not available

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

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