Bug 1993488 (CVE-2021-37695)

Summary:	CVE-2021-37695 ckeditor: fake objects feature vulnerability allowing to execute JavaScript code using malformed HTML
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz <gsuckevi>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	orion, shawn
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Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2021-08-13 13:34:59 UTC

ckeditor is an open source WYSIWYG HTML editor with rich content support. A potential vulnerability has been discovered in CKEditor 4 [Fake Objects](https://ckeditor.com/cke4/addon/fakeobjects) package. The vulnerability allowed to inject malformed Fake Objects HTML, which could result in executing JavaScript code. It affects all users using the CKEditor 4 plugins listed above at version < 4.16.2. The problem has been recognized and patched. The fix will be available in version 4.16.2.

Reference:
https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor4/security/advisories/GHSA-m94c-37g6-cjhc

Upstream patch:
https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor4/commit/de3c001540715f9c3801aaa38a1917de46cfcf58

Comment 1 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2021-08-13 13:35:17 UTC

Created ckeditor tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 1993490]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1993489]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2021-08-13 19:28:14 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.