CVE-2023-29400 (GCVE-0-2023-29400)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-05-11 15:29 – Updated: 2025-01-24 16:47
VLAI
Title
Improper handling of empty HTML attributes in html/template
Summary
Templates containing actions in unquoted HTML attributes (e.g. "attr={{.}}") executed with empty input can result in output with unexpected results when parsed due to HTML normalization rules. This may allow injection of arbitrary attributes into tags.
Severity
7.3 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-74 - Improper input validation
  • CWE-94 - Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
Assigner
Go
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Go standard library html/template Affected: 0 , < 1.19.9 (semver)
Affected: 1.20.0-0 , < 1.20.4 (semver)
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Credits
Juho Nurminen of Mattermost
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