XML comment injection in Saxy encoder via unescaped double hyphen
Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).
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Vendor Workaround
Reject or rewrite the -- sequence in untrusted text before passing it to Saxy.XML.comment/1, for example by replacing -- with - -. Alternatively, stop emitting untrusted data as XML comments. Comments carry no semantic payload for consumers, so the text can usually be moved into an element or a CDATA section instead.
No CVSS v3.1
No CVSS v3.0
No CVSS v2
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
Exploit prediction score: < 1% (0.168% probability within 30 days)
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| Description | XML injection in the encoder of Saxy. Saxy.Encoder does not neutralize the -- sequence in XML comment content: escape_comment/2 returns the comment binary unchanged in every clause and only appends a space when the comment ends in a single -, so neither an interior -- nor a full --> is escaped or rejected before the encoder wraps the content in the <!-- and --> delimiters. When an application serializes attacker-controlled text as a comment, through Saxy.XML.comment/1 or a raw {:comment, text} simple form child, the attacker can close the comment early with --> and inject arbitrary sibling markup into the serialized document. A downstream parser then sees elements, attributes, and text that the application never built. Where the document is rendered as HTML or SVG, the injected markup executes as stored cross-site scripting; where it is consumed by another XML processor, the attacker can forge data that the producing application never emitted. Documents that Saxy only parses are not a vector. This issue affects saxy: from 0.7.0 before 1.7.0. | |
| Title | XML comment injection in Saxy encoder via unescaped double hyphen | |
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Qcam
Qcam saxy |
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| Weaknesses | CWE-91 | |
| CPEs | cpe:2.3:a:qcam:saxy:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | |
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Qcam
Qcam saxy |
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cvssV4_0
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