CVE-2021-38186 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

An issue was discovered in the comrak crate before 0.10.1 for Rust. It mishandles & characters, leading to XSS via &# HTML entities.

Published: 2021-08-08

Score: 6.1 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:comrak_project:comrak:*:*:*:*:*:rust:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2021-1606	An issue was discovered in the comrak crate before 0.10.1 for Rust. It mishandles & characters, leading to XSS via &# HTML entities.
Github GHSA	GHSA-6wj2-g87r-pm62	Cross-site Scripting in comrak

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00741.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rustsec/advisory-db/main/crates/comrak/RUSTSEC-2021-0063.md
https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0063.html

History

No history.

Subscriptions

Comrak Project Comrak

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2021-08-08T05:10:53.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-04T01:37:15.492Z

Reserved: 2021-08-08T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-38186

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-08-08T06:15:08.780

Modified: 2026-06-17T04:01:43.127

Link: CVE-2021-38186

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-79
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

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