GHSA-2mrq-w8pv-5pvq

Source

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2mrq-w8pv-5pvq

Import Source

https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2024/02/GHSA-2mrq-w8pv-5pvq/GHSA-2mrq-w8pv-5pvq.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-2mrq-w8pv-5pvq

Aliases

CVE-2024-23635

Published

2024-02-02T18:10:04Z

Modified

2024-02-16T08:23:09.188207Z

Severity

6.1 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N CVSS Calculator

Summary

Malicious input can provoke XSS when preserving comments

Details

Impact

There is a potential for a mutation XSS (mXSS) vulnerability in AntiSamy caused by flawed parsing of the HTML being sanitized. To be subject to this vulnerability the preserveComments directive must be enabled in your policy file. As a result, certain crafty inputs can result in elements in comment tags being interpreted as executable when using AntiSamy's sanitized output.

Patches

Patched in AntiSamy 1.7.5 and later. This is due to parsing behavior in the neko-htmlunit dependency, just by updating to a newer version the issue was solved. See important remediation details in the reference given below.

Workarounds

If you cannot upgrade to a fixed version of the library, the following mitigation can be applied until you can upgrade: Manually edit your AntiSamy policy file (e.g., antisamy.xml) by deleting the preserveComments directive or setting its value to false, if present.

As the previously mentioned policy settings are preconditions for the mXSS attack to work, changing them as recommended should be sufficient to protect you against this vulnerability when using a vulnerable version of this library. However, the existing bug would still be present in the parser dependency (neko-htmlunit) and therefore in AntiSamy. The safety of this workaround relies on configurations that may change in the future and don't address the root cause of the vulnerability. As such, it is strongly recommended to upgrade to a fixed version of AntiSamy.

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:

Email one of the project co-leaders, listed on the OWASP AntiSamy project page, under "Leaders".

Database specific

{
    "nvd_published_at": "2024-02-02T17:15:11Z",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-79"
    ],
    "severity": "MODERATE",
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2024-02-02T18:10:04Z"
}

References

Affected packages

Maven / org.owasp.antisamy:antisamy

Package

Name: org.owasp.antisamy:antisamy; View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl: pkg:maven/org.owasp.antisamy/antisamy

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

1.7.5

Affected versions

1.*

1.4.2

1.4.3

1.4.4

1.4.5

1.5

1.5.1

1.5.2

1.5.3

1.5.5

1.5.6

1.5.7

1.5.8

1.5.9

1.5.10

1.5.11

1.5.12

1.5.13

1.6.0

1.6.1

1.6.2

1.6.3

1.6.4

1.6.5

1.6.6

1.6.6.1

1.6.7

1.6.8

1.7.0

1.7.1

1.7.2

1.7.3

1.7.4

Database specific

{
    "last_known_affected_version_range": "<= 1.7.4"
}