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Improper rendering of text nodes in golang.org/x/net/html

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Aug 2, 2023 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Nov 8, 2023

Package

gomod golang.org/x/net (Go)

Affected versions

< 0.13.0

Patched versions

0.13.0

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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Aug 2, 2023
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Aug 2, 2023
Reviewed Oct 11, 2023
Last updated Nov 8, 2023

Severity

Moderate
6.1
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
Required
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2023-3978

GHSA ID

GHSA-2wrh-6pvc-2jm9

Source code

No known source code
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