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CVE-2018-5773

Safety vulnerability ID: 35760

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Created at Jan 18, 2018 Updated at Mar 29, 2024
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Advisory

An issue was discovered in markdown2 (aka python-markdown2) through 2.3.5. The safe_mode feature, which is supposed to sanitize user input against XSS, is flawed and does not escape the input properly. With a crafted payload, XSS can be triggered, as demonstrated by omitting the final '>' character from an IMG tag.

Affected package

markdown2

Latest version: 2.4.13

A fast and complete Python implementation of Markdown

Affected versions

Fixed versions

Vulnerability changelog

An issue was discovered in markdown2 (aka python-markdown2) through 2.3.5. The safe_mode feature, which is supposed to sanitize user input against XSS, is flawed and does not escape the input properly. With a crafted payload, XSS can be triggered, as demonstrated by omitting the final '>' character from an IMG tag.


MISC:https://github.com/trentm/python-markdown2/issues/285: https://github.com/trentm/python-markdown2/issues/285

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Severity Details

CVSS Base Score

MEDIUM 6.1

CVSS v3 Details

MEDIUM 6.1
Attack Vector (AV)
NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC)
LOW
Privileges Required (PR)
NONE
User Interaction (UI)
REQUIRED
Scope (S)
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact (C)
LOW
Integrity Impact (I)
LOW
Availability Availability (A)
NONE

CVSS v2 Details

MEDIUM 4.3
Access Vector (AV)
NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC)
MEDIUM
Authentication (Au)
NONE
Confidentiality Impact (C)
NONE
Integrity Impact (I)
PARTIAL
Availability Impact (A)
NONE