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ghsa-6fm4-9v93-v7gg

Vulnerability from github

Published

2023-01-13 06:30

Modified

2023-01-23 21:30

Severity ?

6.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Details

An issue was discovered in Nim before 1.6.2. The RST module of the Nim language stdlib, as used in NimForum and other products, permits the javascript: URI scheme and thus can lead to XSS in some applications. (Nim versions 1.6.2 and later are fixed; there may be backports of the fix to some earlier versions. NimForum 2.2.0 is fixed.)

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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2021-46872"
  ],
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    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2023-01-13T06:15:00Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "An issue was discovered in Nim before 1.6.2. The RST module of the Nim language stdlib, as used in NimForum and other products, permits the javascript: URI scheme and thus can lead to XSS in some applications. (Nim versions 1.6.2 and later are fixed; there may be backports of the fix to some earlier versions. NimForum 2.2.0 is fixed.)",
  "id": "GHSA-6fm4-9v93-v7gg",
  "modified": "2023-01-23T21:30:24Z",
  "published": "2023-01-13T06:30:22Z",
  "references": [
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      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-46872"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/19134"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/commit/46275126b89218e64844eee169e8ced05dd0e2d7"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/8852"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/compare/v1.6.0...v1.6.2"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
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    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
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}

CVE-2021-46872 (GCVE-0-2021-46872)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2023-01-13 00:00

Modified

2025-04-07 19:13

Severity ?

6.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CWE

n/a

Summary

An issue was discovered in Nim before 1.6.2. The RST module of the Nim language stdlib, as used in NimForum and other products, permits the javascript: URI scheme and thus can lead to XSS in some applications. (Nim versions 1.6.2 and later are fixed; there may be backports of the fix to some earlier versions. NimForum 2.2.0 is fixed.)

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	https://github.com/nim-lang/nimforum
	https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/8852
	https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/19134
	https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/compare/v1.6.0...v1.6.2
	https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/commit/46275126b89218e64844eee169e8ced05dd0e2d7

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	n/a	Version: n/a

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