CVE-2021-32796

Published Jul 27, 2021

Last updated 3 years ago

Overview

Description
xmldom is an open source pure JavaScript W3C standard-based (XML DOM Level 2 Core) DOMParser and XMLSerializer module. xmldom versions 0.6.0 and older do not correctly escape special characters when serializing elements removed from their ancestor. This may lead to unexpected syntactic changes during XML processing in some downstream applications. This issue has been resolved in version 0.7.0. As a workaround downstream applications can validate the input and reject the maliciously crafted documents.
Source
security-advisories@github.com
NVD status
Analyzed

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type
Primary
Base score
5.3
Impact score
1.4
Exploitability score
3.9
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Severity
MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
5
Impact score
2.9
Exploitability score
10
Vector string
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
CWE-116
security-advisories@github.com
CWE-116

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Configurations