CVE-2023-3978

medium

Published 2023-11-07 · Modified 2023-11-14

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CVSS v3

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.5

Description

Text nodes not in the HTML namespace are incorrectly literally rendered, causing text which should be escaped to not be. This could lead to an XSS attack.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

30%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

Debian Mixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`1:0.14.0-1`
sid	Fixed	`1:0.14.0-1`
forky	Fixed	`1:0.14.0-1`
bullseye	Affected	—
bookworm	Affected	—

AlmaLinux Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
9	Fixed	`podman-docker-4.6.1-5.el9.noarch.rpm`

Red Hat Fixed 2 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
9	Fixed	—
8	Fixed	—

Rocky Linux Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
8	Fixed	—

Package impact

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable	Fixed
Go	golang.org/x/net	`<0.13.0`	`0.13.0`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.