Medium severity · published Aug 2, 2023
CVE-2023-3978
Text nodes not in the HTML namespace are incorrectly literally rendered, causing text which should be escaped to not be
6.1
CVSS
0.9%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.9% · higher than 58% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
NE
Networking · Golang
before 0.13.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-3978
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-3978
Patch
https://go.dev/cl/514896
Issue Tracking
https://go.dev/issue/61615
Issue Tracking
https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2023-1988
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