PT-2017-10386 · Html5Lib+1 · Html5Lib+1

Salvatore Bonaccorso · Published 2017-01-03 · Updated 2024-04-08 · CVE-2016-9910

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.1

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions html5lib versions prior to 0.99999999

Description The issue concerns the serializer in html5lib, which might allow remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. This is due to the mishandling of special characters in attribute values.

Recommendations For versions prior to 0.99999999, update to version 0.99999999 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-3591

CVE-2016-9910

GHSA-8F6M-GFQ9-G33V

MGASA-2017-0001

PYSEC-2017-15

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Html5Lib

References · 28

• https://github.com/html5lib/html5lib-python/issues/11 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/html5lib/html5lib-python/commit/9b8d8eb5afbc066b7fac9390f5ec75e5e8a7cab7 · Patch
• https://github.com/html5lib/html5lib-python/issues/12 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2017-0001 · Vendor Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/08/8 · Patch
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/06/5 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9910 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9910 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-9910 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9909 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9910 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9910 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-9910 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/PYSEC-2017-15 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9910 · Security Note