UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10531

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10531

    Published: 31 May 2018Last Modified: 24 Oct 2025
    Upstream:
    CVE-2016-10531

    Summary:

    Details: marked is an application that is meant to parse and compile markdown. Due to the way that marked 0.3.5 and earlier parses input, specifically HTML entities, it's possible to bypass marked's content injection protection (`sanitize: true`) to inject a `javascript:` URL. This flaw exists because `&#xNNanything;` gets parsed to what it could and leaves the rest behind, resulting in just `anything;` being left.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-10531, https://github.com/chjj/marked/pull/592, https://github.com/chjj/marked/pull/592/commits/2cff85979be8e7a026a9aca35542c470cf5da523, https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/101, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-10531

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: node-marked

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+dfsg-1?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    0.3.2+dfsg-1

    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