CVE-2020-26870

Summary

CVECVE-2020-26870
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-10-07 16:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-04-27 18:49:00 UTC
DescriptionCure53 DOMPurify before 2.0.17 allows mutation XSS. This occurs because a serialize-parse roundtrip does not necessarily return the original DOM tree, and a namespace can change from HTML to MathML, as demonstrated by nesting of FORM elements.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-79

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Cure53 Dompurify All All All All
Application Cure53 Dompurify All All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Application Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 15.9 All All All
Application Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 15.9 All All All
Application Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 16.0 All All All
Application Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 16.4 All All All
Application Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 16.7 All All All
Application Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 16.8 All All All
Application Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 16.0 All All All
Application Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 16.4 All All All
Application Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 16.7 All All All
Application Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 16.8 All All All
Application Oracle Application Express All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Mutation XSS via namespace confusion - DOMPurify < 2.0.17 bypass - research.securitum.com MISC research.securitum.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Security Update Guide - Microsoft Security Response Center MS portal.msrc.microsoft.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - July 2021 N/A www.oracle.com
[SECURITY] [DLA 2419-1] dompurify.js security update MLIST lists.debian.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
fix: attemtping to fix another mutation behavior · cure53/DOMPurify@02724b8 · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
Comparing 2.0.16...2.0.17 · cure53/DOMPurify · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 20226 Oracle Database 19c Critical Patch Update - July 2021
  • 20227 Oracle Database 12.2.0.1 Critical Patch Update - July 2021
  • 20228 Oracle Database 12.2.0.1 Critical Patch Update - July 2021 (Unauthenticated)
  • 20229 Oracle Database 12.1.0.2 Critical Patch Update - July 2021
  • 20230 Oracle Database 12.1.0.2 Critical Patch Update - July 2021 (Unauthenticated)
  • 20279 Oracle Database 19c Critical OJVM Patch Update - July 2021
  • 982802 Nodejs (npm) Security Update for dompurify (GHSA-63q7-h895-m982)
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