rustsec-2021-0063
Vulnerability from osv_rustsec
Published
2021-05-04 12:00
Modified
2023-06-13 13:10
Summary
XSS in `comrak`
Details

comrak operates by default in a "safe" mode of operation where unsafe content, such as arbitrary raw HTML or URLs with non-standard schemes, are not permitted in the output. This is per the reference GFM implementation, cmark-gfm.

Ampersands were not being correctly escaped in link targets, making it possible to fashion unsafe URLs using schemes like data: or javascript: by entering them as HTML entities, e.g. data:. The intended behaviour, demonstrated upstream, is that these should be escaped and therefore harmless, but this behaviour was broken in comrak.


{
  "affected": [
    {
      "database_specific": {
        "categories": [
          "format-injection"
        ],
        "cvss": null,
        "informational": null
      },
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "affected_functions": null,
        "affects": {
          "arch": [],
          "functions": [],
          "os": []
        }
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "crates.io",
        "name": "comrak",
        "purl": "pkg:cargo/comrak"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0.0.0-0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "0.10.1"
            }
          ],
          "type": "SEMVER"
        }
      ],
      "versions": []
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2021-38186",
    "GHSA-6wj2-g87r-pm62"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "license": "CC0-1.0"
  },
  "details": "[comrak](https://github.com/kivikakk/comrak) operates by default in a \"safe\"\nmode of operation where unsafe content, such as arbitrary raw HTML or URLs with\nnon-standard schemes, are not permitted in the output.  This is per the\nreference GFM implementation, [cmark-gfm](https://github.com/github/cmark).\n\nAmpersands were not being correctly escaped in link targets, making it possible\nto fashion unsafe URLs using schemes like `data:` or `javascript:` by entering\nthem as HTML entities, e.g. `\u0026#x64\u0026#x61\u0026#x74\u0026#x61\u0026#x3a`.  The intended\nbehaviour, demonstrated upstream, is that these should be escaped and therefore\nharmless, but this behaviour was broken in comrak.",
  "id": "RUSTSEC-2021-0063",
  "modified": "2023-06-13T13:10:24Z",
  "published": "2021-05-04T12:00:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://crates.io/crates/comrak"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0063.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/kivikakk/comrak/releases/tag/0.10.1"
    }
  ],
  "related": [],
  "severity": [],
  "summary": "XSS in `comrak`"
}


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