CVE-2016-9909

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9909
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-9909.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-9909
Aliases
Downstream
Published
2017-02-22T16:59:00.380Z
Modified
2026-04-16T06:24:05.901146498Z
Severity
  • 6.1 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The serializer in html5lib before 0.99999999 might allow remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks by leveraging mishandling of the < (less than) character in attribute values.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/html5lib/html5lib-python

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/html5lib/html5lib-python
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
ebf62250d23317ae1f51d8b8e4a1d3b62b260ff1
Fixed
9b8d8eb5afbc066b7fac9390f5ec75e5e8a7cab7
Database specific 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "0.99999999"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

0.*
0.10ish
0.11.1ish
0.11ish
0.90
0.95
0.99
0.999
0.9999
0.99999
0.999999
0.9999999
0.99999999
0.9ish
1.*
1.0b1
1.0b2
1.0b3

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-9909.json"