What is CVE-2021-38193?

CVE-2021-38193 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ammonia Project, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2021-08-08.

How severe is CVE-2021-38193?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.

XSS in Ammonia Project

CVE-2021-38193

An issue was discovered in the ammonia crate before 3.1.0 for Rust. XSS can occur because the parsing differences for HTML, SVG, and MathML are mishandled, a similar issue to CVE-2020-26870.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.007 (49.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Ammonia_project Ammonia
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking)
cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2021-38193?: CVE-2021-38193 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ammonia Project, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2021-08-08.
How severe is CVE-2021-38193?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.