PT-2018-15203 · Mathjax+1 · Mathjax+1

Published 2018-07-23 · Updated 2024-04-08 · CVE-2018-1999024

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.4

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions MathJax versions prior to 2.7.4

Description The issue concerns a Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the unicode{} macro. This vulnerability can result in potentially untrusted JavaScript running within a web browser. The attack appears to be exploitable when the victim views a page where untrusted content is processed using MathJax.

Recommendations For MathJax versions prior to 2.7.4, update to version 2.7.4 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the use of the unicode{} macro until a patch is applied.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2018-3677

AZL-41294

CVE-2018-1999024

GHSA-3C48-6PCV-88RM

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Mathjax

References · 13

• 🔥 https://blog.bentkowski.info/2018/06/xss-in-google-colaboratory-csp-bypass.html · Exploit
• https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/commit/a55da396c18cafb767a26aa9ad96f6f4199852f1 · Patch
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-1999024 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1999024 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-1999024 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-1999024 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-3c48-6pcv-88rm · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/AZL-41294 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-1999024 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-1999024 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-1999024 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax · Note
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3c48-6pcv-88rm · Note