Vulnerability · Published Feb 25, 2021 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2021-27671

Medium 6.1

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.7% (higher than 53% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)6.1Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.7%top 47.2% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

An issue was discovered in the comrak crate before 0.9.1 for Rust. XSS can occur because the protection mechanism for data: and javascript: URIs is case-sensitive, allowing (for example) Data: to be used in an attack.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0026.html x_refsource_MISC