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UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10531 (CVE-2016-10531)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2018-05-31 20:29 – Updated: 2025-10-24 04:46 – Source website

Details

marked is an application that is meant to parse and compile markdown. Due to the way that marked 0.3.5 and earlier parses input, specifically HTML entities, it's possible to bypass marked's content injection protection (sanitize: true) to inject a javascript: URL. This flaw exists because &#xNNanything; gets parsed to what it could and leaves the rest behind, resulting in just anything; being left.

Severity

6.1 (Medium)


                    
                      CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-10531	REPORT
	https://github.com/chjj/marked/pull/592	REPORT
	https://github.com/chjj/marked/pull/592/commits/2…	REPORT
	https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/101	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-10531	REPORT

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            "binary_version": "0.3.2+dfsg-1"
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CVE-2016-10531 (GCVE-0-2016-10531)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-05-31 20:00 – Updated: 2024-09-17 04:28

Summary

marked is an application that is meant to parse and compile markdown. Due to the way that marked 0.3.5 and earlier parses input, specifically HTML entities, it's possible to bypass marked's content injection protection (`sanitize: true`) to inject a `javascript:` URL. This flaw exists because `&#xNNanything;` gets parsed to what it could and leaves the rest behind, resulting in just `anything;` being left.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

CWE-79 - Cross-site Scripting (XSS) - Generic (CWE-79)

Assigner

hackerone CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard D 59/100 over 187 records in the last 180 days details

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/101	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/chjj/marked/pull/592/commits/2…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/chjj/marked/pull/592	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
HackerOne	marked node module	Affected: <=0.3.5

Date Public

2018-04-26 00:00

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