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CVE-2023-3978

Published: 2 August 2023

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.

Notes

AuthorNote
alexmurray
google-guest-agent contains a vendored copy of
golang-golang-x-net
mdeslaur
containerd contains a vendored copy of golang-golang-x-net
google-guest-agent does not contain the render.go file
containerd does not contain the render.go file

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.1

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
containerd
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Not vulnerable
(code not present)
focal Not vulnerable
(code not present)
jammy Not vulnerable
(code not present)
lunar Not vulnerable
(code not present)
mantic Not vulnerable
(code not present)
trusty Ignored
(end of standard support)
upstream Not vulnerable
(code not present)
xenial Not vulnerable
(code not present)
golang-golang-x-net
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Ignored
(end of standard support)
focal Does not exist

jammy Needs triage

lunar Ignored
(end of life, was needs-triage)
mantic Needs triage

trusty Ignored
(end of standard support)
upstream Needs triage

xenial Ignored
(end of standard support)
golang-golang-x-net-dev
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Needs triage

focal Needs triage

jammy Does not exist

lunar Does not exist

mantic Does not exist

trusty Ignored
(end of standard support)
upstream Needs triage

xenial Needs triage

google-guest-agent
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Not vulnerable
(code not present)
focal Not vulnerable
(code not present)
jammy Not vulnerable
(code not present)
lunar Not vulnerable
(code not present)
mantic Not vulnerable
(code not present)
trusty Does not exist

upstream Not vulnerable
(code not present)
xenial Not vulnerable
(code not present)

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.1
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Changed
Confidentiality Low
Integrity impact Low
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N