CVE-2021-38193: Cross-site Scripting in ammonia

August 25, 2021

An issue was discovered in the ammonia crate before 3.1.0 for Rust. XSS can occur because the parsing differences for HTML, SVG, and MathML are mishandled, a similar issue to CVE-2020-26870.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-5325-xw5m-phm3
github.com/rust-ammonia/ammonia
github.com/rust-ammonia/ammonia/pull/142
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-38193
raw.githubusercontent.com/rustsec/advisory-db/main/crates/ammonia/RUSTSEC-2021-0074.md
rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0074.html

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