What is GHSA-3c48-6pcv-88rm?

GHSA-3c48-6pcv-88rm is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with Medium severity. Macro in MathJax running untrusted Javascript within a web browser

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-3c48-6pcv-88rm cover?

GHSA-3c48-6pcv-88rm covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2018-1999024. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-3c48-6pcv-88rm?

GHSA-3c48-6pcv-88rm has a CVSS v3 base score of 5.4, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

Which products are affected by GHSA-3c48-6pcv-88rm?

GHSA-3c48-6pcv-88rm affects 1 product, including: npm/mathjax:\u003c 2.7.4.

GHSA-3c48-6pcv-88rmMediumCVSS 5.4

Macro in MathJax running untrusted Javascript within a web browser

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

July 27, 2018

Last Modified

September 11, 2023

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2018-1999024 →

📋 Description

MathJax version prior to version 2.7.4 contains a Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the \unicode{} macro that can result in Potentially untrusted Javascript running within a web browser. This attack appear to be exploitable via The victim must view a page where untrusted content is processed using Mathjax. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 2.7.4 and later.

🎯 Affected products1

npm/mathjax:< 2.7.4

🔗 References (4)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1999024
https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/commit/a55da396c18cafb767a26aa9ad96f6f4199852f1
https://blog.bentkowski.info/2018/06/xss-in-google-colaboratory-csp-bypass.html
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3c48-6pcv-88rm