CVE-2021-23445

Aliases:GHSA-h73q-5wmj-q8pj
Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 6
Modified
Published: 27 Sept 2021, 16:35
Last modified:16 Sept 2024, 18:39

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
34/100
CVSS Score
6.1 MEDIUM
v3.1 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.35% LOW
0% probability +0.02%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
3 found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

27 Sept 2021, 16:35
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
16 Sept 2024, 18:39
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

This affects the package datatables.net before 1.11.3. If an array is passed to the HTML escape entities function it would not have its contents escaped.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1•LOW•Score: 3.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N/E:P
  • v3.1•MEDIUM•Score: 6.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
  • v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 4.3AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.35%• Percentile: 58%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-79•Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

    The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users.

Affected Systems

  • datatables•datatables.net

    < 1.11.3

  • Npm•datatables.net

    < 1.11.3

References (11)