RUSTSEC-2021-0026

XSS in comrak

Issued

February 21, 2021

Package

comrak (crates.io)

Type

Vulnerability

Categories

format-injection

Keywords

#xss

Aliases

CVE-2021-27671

Details

https://github.com/kivikakk/comrak/releases/tag/0.9.1

CVSS Score

6.1 MEDIUM

CVSS Details

Attack vector: Network
Attack complexity: Low
Privileges required: None
User interaction: Required
Scope: Changed
Confidentiality: Low
Integrity: Low
Availability: None

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Patched

>=0.9.1

Keywords

#xss

Description

The comrak we were matching unsafe URL prefixes, such as data: or javascript: , in a case-sensitive manner. This meant prefixes like Data: were untouched.