CVE-2021-38186

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    CVE-2021-38186

    Published: 8 Aug 2021Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: An issue was discovered in the comrak crate before 0.10.1 for Rust. It mishandles & characters, leading to XSS via &# HTML entities.

    References: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rustsec/advisory-db/main/crates/comrak/RUSTSEC-2021-0063.md, https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2021-0063.html

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

    Purl:

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -154479561c919e966ec24c0956e049fe5de68378

    Affected versions

    0.10.1-rc.1
    0.10.0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
    CVE-2021-38186 | CVE-DB