sanitize-html Information Exposure vulnerability
Date: 2024-02
Affected: npm/sanitize-html
Attack vector: info-disclosure
Category: vulnerability-disclosure
Severity: Medium
CVE: CVE-2024-21501
CWE: CWE-200
CWE-538
CVSS: 5.3 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

Versions of the package sanitize-html before 2.12.1 are vulnerable to Information Exposure when used on the backend and with the style attribute allowed, allowing enumeration of files in the system (including project dependencies). An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gather details about the file system structure and dependencies of the targeted server.


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