CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-66843
2.3 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2026-08-06
- Last modified
- 2026-10-24
- Assigner
- 6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db
- CVSS 4.0 (6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db)
- 2.3 LOW — CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
- 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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-829
Description
Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere vulnerability in the HTML5 scrubber in rrrene html_sanitize_ex allows a remote attacker to load a document of their choosing into a trusted page via the data attribute of an <object> element in sanitized HTML. object is the one URI-bearing element in lib/html_sanitize_ex/scrubber/html5.ex never registered through allow_tag_with_uri_attributes/3, and its only guard is a prefix match on lowercase "javascript:", so mixed-case variants, data: URIs, protocol-relative URLs and same-origin paths all survive.
This is not unconditional cross-site scripting. A javascript: URL does not execute through <object data> in current browsers, data: documents load in an opaque origin, and host-origin script execution additionally requires the application to serve attacker-controlled content from a same-origin path.
This issue affects html_sanitize_ex: from 0.3.1 before 1.4.5 and from 1.5.0-rc.0 before 1.5.3.
Affected configurations
• rrrene htmlsanitizeex (>= 0.3.1 < 1.5.3)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-829 Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere weakness
References
- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-66843.html Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/rrrene/html_sanitize_ex/commit/bec27fec4de99e40c68c4285a610e09e791a3eaf Patch
- https://github.com/rrrene/html_sanitize_ex/commit/ce038aa1af5a960d50f8eb5d368cc57bb2b9a9f0 github.com
- https://github.com/rrrene/html_sanitize_ex/security/advisories/GHSA-xmm9-jc22-rcgj Broken Link
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-66843 Patch, Third Party Advisory