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CVE-2021-28162 (GCVE-0-2021-28162)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-03-12 21:40 – Updated: 2024-08-03 21:40
VLAI
Summary
In Eclipse Theia versions up to and including 0.16.0, in the notification messages there is no HTML escaping, so Javascript code can run.
Severity
6.1 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-830 - Inclusion of Web Functionality from an Untrusted Source
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
The Eclipse Foundation Eclipse Theia Affected: unspecified , ≤ 0.16.0 (custom)
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