VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2021-38186
It mishandles & characters, leading to XSS via &# HTML entities.
MEDIUM 6.1EPSS 0.74%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.74%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
An issue was discovered in the comrak crate before 0.10.1 for Rust. It mishandles & characters, leading to XSS via &# HTML entities.
- CVSS 3.1
- 6.1 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- EPSS
- 0.74% probability · 53th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Affected
- comrak project/comrak
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rustsec/advisory-db/main/crates/comrak/RUSTSEC-2021-0063.mdThird Party Advisory
- https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0063.htmlExploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rustsec/advisory-db/main/crates/comrak/RUSTSEC-2021-0063.mdThird Party Advisory
- https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0063.htmlExploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.