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The untrusted value must reach <code>Saxy.XML.comment/1</code> or a raw <code>{:comment, text}</code> simple form child that is then serialized with <code>Saxy.encode!/2</code> or <code>Saxy.encode_to_iodata!/2</code>. Documents that are only parsed by Saxy never reach the encoder and are not a vector.</p>"}, {"base64": false, "type": "text/markdown", "value": "Only applications that place untrusted text into an XML comment node are affected. The untrusted value must reach `Saxy.XML.comment/1` or a raw `{:comment, text}` simple form child that is then serialized with `Saxy.encode!/2` or `Saxy.encode_to_iodata!/2`. Documents that are only parsed by Saxy never reach the encoder and are not a vector."}], "value": "Only applications that place untrusted text into an XML comment node are affected. The untrusted value must reach Saxy.XML.comment/1 or a raw {:comment, text} simple form child that is then serialized with Saxy.encode!/2 or Saxy.encode_to_iodata!/2. Documents that are only parsed by Saxy never reach the encoder and are not a vector."}], "cpeApplicability": [{"nodes": [{"cpeMatch": [{"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:qcam:saxy:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionEndExcluding": "1.7.0", "versionStartIncluding": "0.7.0", "vulnerable": true}], "negate": false, "operator": "OR"}], "operator": "AND"}], "credits": [{"lang": "en", "type": "finder", "value": "Peter Ullrich"}, {"lang": "en", "type": "reporter", "value": "Peter Ullrich"}, {"lang": "en", "type": "remediation developer", "value": "Peter Ullrich"}, {"lang": "en", "type": "remediation reviewer", "value": "C\u1ea9m Hu\u1ef3nh"}, {"lang": "en", "type": "analyst", "value": "Jonatan M\u00e4nnchen / EEF"}, {"lang": "en", "type": "coordinator", "value": "Peter Ullrich"}], "descriptions": [{"lang": "en", "supportingMedia": [{"base64": false, "type": "text/html", "value": "<p>XML injection in the encoder of Saxy. <code>Saxy.Encoder</code> does not neutralize the <code>--</code> sequence in XML comment content: <code>escape_comment/2</code> returns the comment binary unchanged in every clause and only appends a space when the comment ends in a single <code>-</code>, so neither an interior <code>--</code> nor a full <code>--&gt;</code> is escaped or rejected before the encoder wraps the content in the <code>&lt;!--</code> and <code>--&gt;</code> delimiters.</p>\n<p>When an application serializes attacker-controlled text as a comment, through <code>Saxy.XML.comment/1</code> or a raw <code>{:comment, text}</code> simple form child, the attacker can close the comment early with <code>--&gt;</code> and inject arbitrary sibling markup into the serialized document. A downstream parser then sees elements, attributes, and text that the application never built. Where the document is rendered as HTML or SVG, the injected markup executes as stored cross-site scripting; where it is consumed by another XML processor, the attacker can forge data that the producing application never emitted. Documents that Saxy only parses are not a vector.</p>\n<p>This issue affects saxy: from 0.7.0 before 1.7.0.</p>"}, {"base64": false, "type": "text/markdown", "value": "XML injection in the encoder of Saxy. `Saxy.Encoder` does not neutralize the `--` sequence in XML comment content: `escape_comment/2` returns the comment binary unchanged in every clause and only appends a space when the comment ends in a single `-`, so neither an interior `--` nor a full `-->` is escaped or rejected before the encoder wraps the content in the `<!--` and `-->` delimiters.\n\nWhen an application serializes attacker-controlled text as a comment, through `Saxy.XML.comment/1` or a raw `{:comment, text}` simple form child, the attacker can close the comment early with `-->` and inject arbitrary sibling markup into the serialized document. A downstream parser then sees elements, attributes, and text that the application never built. 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