CVE-2023-3978 Improper rendering of text nodes in golang.org/x/net/html

2023-08-0219:48:56

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cve-2023-3978

golang.org

html namespace

xss attack

AI Score

6.3

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.001

Percentile

34.9%

JSON

Text nodes not in the HTML namespace are incorrectly literally rendered, causing text which should be escaped to not be. This could lead to an XSS attack.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "vendor": "golang.org/x/net",
    "product": "golang.org/x/net/html",
    "collectionURL": "https://pkg.go.dev",
    "packageName": "golang.org/x/net/html",
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": "0",
        "lessThan": "0.13.0",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "semver"
      }
    ],
    "programRoutines": [
      {
        "name": "render1"
      },
      {
        "name": "Render"
      }
    ],
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected"
  }
]