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By-passing Cross-Site Scripting Protection in HTML Sanitizer

Moderate
ohader published GHSA-mm79-jhqm-9j54 Nov 14, 2023

Package

composer typo3/html-sanitizer (Composer)

Affected versions

1.0.0-1.5.2, 2.0.0-2.1.3

Patched versions

1.5.3, 2.1.4

Description

CVSS: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N/E:F/RL:O/RC:C (4.4)

Problem

DOM processing instructions are not handled correctly. This allows bypassing the cross-site scripting mechanism of typo3/html-sanitizer.

Solution

Update to typo3/html-sanitizer versions 1.5.3 or 2.1.4 that fix the problem described.

Credits

Thanks to Yaniv Nizry and Niels Dossche who reported this issue, and to TYPO3 core & security team member Oliver Hader who fixed the issue.

References

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

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

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CVE ID

CVE-2023-47125

Weaknesses

Credits