CVE-2021-23445

Summary

CVECVE-2021-23445
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-09-27 17:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-08-15 16:15:00 UTC
DescriptionThis 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-79

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Datatables Datatables.net All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] [DLA 3529-1] datatables.js security update MLIST lists.debian.org
Invalid vulnerability MISC snyk.io
DataTables 1.11.3 MISC cdn.datatables.net
Cross-site Scripting (XSS) in org.webjars.bower:datatables.net | Snyk MISC snyk.io
e835ddc5b800c47f7e9e32a91cc522f8ca7ced5c Fix: If an array was passed … · DataTables/Dist-DataTables@59a8d3f · GitHub MISC github.com
Cross-site Scripting (XSS) in org.webjars.npm:datatables.net | Snyk MISC snyk.io
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

Discovery Credit

LEGACY: Alessio Della Libera of Snyk Research Team

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 180105 Debian Security Update for datatables.js (CVE-2021-23445)
  • 379452 IBM Cognos Analytics Multiple Vulnerabilities (7123154)
  • 6000081 Debian Security Update for datatables.js (DLA 3529-1)
  • 980421 Nodejs (npm) Security Update for datatables.net (GHSA-h73q-5wmj-q8pj)
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