CVE-2022-29577 (Medium) detected in antisamy-1.5.3.jar

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CVE-2022-29577 - Medium Severity Vulnerability

Vulnerable Library - antisamy-1.5.3.jar

The OWASP AntiSamy project is a collection of APIs for safely allowing users to supply their own HTML and CSS without exposing the site to XSS vulnerabilities.

Library home page: http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_AntiSamy_Project

Path to dependency file: /pom.xml

Path to vulnerable library: /home/wss-scanner/.m2/repository/org/owasp/antisamy/antisamy/1.5.3/antisamy-1.5.3.jar

Dependency Hierarchy:

• esapi-2.1.0.1.jar (Root Library)
  • ❌ antisamy-1.5.3.jar (Vulnerable Library)

Found in HEAD commit: e392b998ee1a964aca6e6b61e666e7e4123f4cf9

Found in base branch: master

Vulnerability Details

OWASP AntiSamy before 1.6.7 allows XSS via HTML tag smuggling on STYLE content with crafted input. The output serializer does not properly encode the supposed Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) content. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2022-28367.

Publish Date: 2022-04-21

URL: CVE-2022-29577

CVSS 3 Score Details (6.1)

Base Score Metrics:

• Exploitability Metrics:
  • Attack Vector: Network
  • Attack Complexity: Low
  • Privileges Required: None
  • User Interaction: Required
  • Scope: Changed
• Impact Metrics:
  • Confidentiality Impact: Low
  • Integrity Impact: Low
  • Availability Impact: None

For more information on CVSS3 Scores, click here.

Suggested Fix

Type: Upgrade version

Origin: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-29577

Release Date: 2022-04-21

Fix Resolution: org.owasp.antisamy:antisamy - 1.6.7