CVE-2023-3978 (GCVE-0-2023-3978)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-08-02 19:48 – Updated: 2024-09-27 21:57
VLAI
Title
Improper rendering of text nodes in golang.org/x/net/html
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Assigner
Go
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
golang.org/x/net golang.org/x/net/html Affected: 0 , < 0.13.0 (semver)
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