CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-39199
6.1 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-09-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 10.0 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.1 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79
Description
remark-html is an open source nodejs library which compiles Markdown to HTML. In affected versions the documentation of remark-html has mentioned that it was safe by default. In practice the default was never safe and had to be opted into. That is, user input was not sanitized. This means arbitrary HTML can be passed through leading to potential XSS attacks. The problem has been patched in 13.0.2 and 14.0.1: `remark-html` is now safe by default, and the implementation matches the documentation. On older affected versions, pass `sanitize: true` if you cannot update.
Affected configurations
• remark remark-html (< 13.0.2)
• remark remark-html (>= 14.0.0 < 14.0.1)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
References
- https://github.com/remarkjs/remark-html/commit/b75c9dde582ad87ba498e369c033dc8a350478c1 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/remarkjs/remark-html/releases/tag/14.0.1 Patch, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/remarkjs/remark-html/security/advisories/GHSA-9q5w-79cv-947m Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/remark-html Product, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/remarkjs/remark-html/commit/b75c9dde582ad87ba498e369c033dc8a350478c1 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/remarkjs/remark-html/releases/tag/14.0.1 Patch, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/remarkjs/remark-html/security/advisories/GHSA-9q5w-79cv-947m Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/remark-html Product, Third Party Advisory