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NOTICE UPDATED - April, 25th 2024

NIST has updated the NVD program announcement page with additional information regarding recent concerns and the temporary delays in enrichment efforts.

CVE-2024-21501 Detail

Description

Versions of the package sanitize-html before 2.12.1 are vulnerable to Information Exposure when used on the backend and with the style attribute allowed, allowing enumeration of files in the system (including project dependencies). An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gather details about the file system structure and dependencies of the targeted server.


Severity

 


CVSS 3.x Severity and Metrics:

NIST CVSS score
NIST: NVD
Base Score:  N/A
NVD assessment not yet provided.

Nist CVSS score does not match with CNA score
CNA:  Snyk
Base Score:  5.3 MEDIUM
Vector:  CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N


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Note: NVD Analysts have not published a CVSS score for this CVE at this time. NVD Analysts use publicly available information at the time of analysis to associate CVSS vector strings. A CNA provided score within the CVE List has been displayed.

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Hyperlink Resource
https://gist.github.com/Slonser/8b4d061abe6ee1b2e10c7242987674cf
https://github.com/apostrophecms/apostrophe/discussions/4436
https://github.com/apostrophecms/sanitize-html/commit/c5dbdf77fe8b836d3bf4554ea39edb45281ec0b4
https://github.com/apostrophecms/sanitize-html/pull/650
https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-6276557
https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-SANITIZEHTML-6256334

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor Contributor acceptance level Snyk  

Change History

2 change records found show changes

Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2024-21501
NVD Published Date:
02/24/2024
NVD Last Modified:
03/06/2024
Source:
Snyk