Bug 1695303 (CVE-2019-9844)

Summary:	CVE-2019-9844 nodejs-simple-markdown: Cross-site script through the data of a vbscript link
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Pedro Sampaio <psampaio>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	rosser.bjr
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Fixed In Version:	nodejs-simple-markdown 0.4.4	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
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Description Pedro Sampaio 2019-04-02 19:27:52 UTC

A flaw was found in nodejs-simple-markdown before version 0.4.4. Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) through the data of a vbscript link when base64 encoded.

Upstream issue/patch:

https://github.com/Khan/simple-markdown/pull/63
https://github.com/Khan/simple-markdown/pull/63/commits/a15cddf65215a39f2a31606873b89563db94de1d

Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2019-04-02 19:28:04 UTC

Created nodejs-simple-markdown tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1695304]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-10 10:52:56 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.