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ubuntu-cve-2016-9910

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2017-02-22 16:59

Modified

2025-10-24 04:45

Summary

Details

The serializer in html5lib before 0.99999999 might allow remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks by leveraging mishandling of special characters in attribute values, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-9909.

Severity

6.1 (Medium)


                    
                      CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

N/A (UNKNOWN)

low

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9910	REPORT
	https://www.sourceclear.com/registry/security/cro…	REPORT
	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/06/5	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9910	REPORT

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CVE-2016-9910 (GCVE-0-2016-9910)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-02-22 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 03:07

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

redhat

References

7 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/html5lib/html5lib-python/issues/12	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://html5lib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/changes…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/06/5	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/08/8	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95132	vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://github.com/html5lib/html5lib-python/commi…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/html5lib/html5lib-python/issues/11	x_refsource_CONFIRM

Date Public

2016-12-06 00:00

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ubuntu-cve-2016-9910

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

CVE-2016-9910 (GCVE-0-2016-9910)

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