PT-2017-13021 · Html Tidy · Tidy

Mayfeel Yang · Published 2017-08-25 · Updated 2017-08-30 · CVE-2017-13692

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Tidy version 5.5.31

Description The issue allows attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a Segmentation Fault. This is due to the IsURLCodePoint function in attrs.c, which is vulnerable when given an invalid ISALNUM argument.

Recommendations For Tidy version 5.5.31, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-13692

Affected Products

Tidy

References · 4

• https://github.com/htacg/tidy-html5/issues/588 · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-13692 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-13692 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/100506 · Note