Vulnerability Report

CVE-2020-26297

Title: XSS vulnerability in mdBook search feature

XSS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2020-26297.

CWE Category CWE-79
Published Date Jan 04, 2021
Modified Date Nov 21, 2024
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 8.2 CVSS v3.1
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.33%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2020-26297: mdBook is a utility to create modern online books from Markdown files and is written in Rust. In mdBook before version 0.4.5, there is a vulnerability affecting the search feature of mdBook, which could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary JavaScript code on the page. The search feature of mdBook (introduced in version 0.1.4) was affected by a cross site scripting vulnerability that allowed an attacker to execute arbitrary JavaScript code on an user's browser by tricking the user into typing a malicious search query, or tricking the user into clicking a link to the search page with the malicious search query prefilled. mdBook 0.4.5 fixes the vulnerability by properly escaping the search query. Owners of websites built with mdBook have to upgrade to mdBook 0.4.5 or greater and rebuild their website contents with it.

Impacted Vendors

R
rust-lang 1

Reference Links

https://crates.io/crates/mdbook https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#mdbook-045 https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook/commit/32abeef088e98327ca0dfccdad92e84afa9d2e9b https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook/security/advisories/GHSA-gx5w-rrhp-f436 https://groups.google.com/g/rustlang-security-announcements/c/3-sO6of29O0 https://crates.io/crates/mdbook https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#mdbook-045 https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook/commit/32abeef088e98327ca0dfccdad92e84afa9d2e9b https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook/security/advisories/GHSA-gx5w-rrhp-f436 https://groups.google.com/g/rustlang-security-announcements/c/3-sO6of29O0
CVSS v3.1
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
8.2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
REQUIRED
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
CHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:N
CVSS v3.1
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
6.1
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
REQUIRED
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
CHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
4.3
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2020-26297 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK
Complexity LOW
Privileges N/A
Interaction REQUIRED
CVSS Vector String CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.