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Description

XML Injection vulnerability in joshnuss xml_builder (XmlBuilder module) allows Content Spoofing, XML Injection.

This vulnerability is associated with program files lib/xml_builder.ex and program routines XmlBuilder.generate/1, XmlBuilder.generate/2, XmlBuilder.element/1, XmlBuilder.element/2, XmlBuilder.element/3.

Element names, attribute names, and doctype identifiers are interpolated verbatim into the serialized XML output without validation or escaping of structural characters (<, >, ", ', &). An attacker who can influence a name argument (for example, an element name derived from a JSON object key or an HTTP form field name) can inject arbitrary XML markup including extra elements, comments, and event-handler attributes into the output document.

This issue affects xml_builder: from 0.0.1 before 2.4.1.

Weaknesses & attack patterns

Weakness

CWE-91 · XML Injection (aka Blind XPath Injection) in catalog → MITRE ↗

Attack patterns

CAPEC-250 · XML Injection MITRE ↗

Affected — Hex / xml_builder Hex.pm ↗ Repository ↗

0.0.1 < 2.4.1 affected
every other version: unaffected
default status unaffected
cpe cpe:2.3:a:joshnuss:xml_builder:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
modules · source files · routines
modules 'Elixir.XmlBuilder'
source files lib/xml_builder.ex
routines 'Elixir.XmlBuilder':generate/1 · 'Elixir.XmlBuilder':generate/2 · 'Elixir.XmlBuilder':element/1 · 'Elixir.XmlBuilder':element/2 · 'Elixir.XmlBuilder':element/3

Affected — GitHub / joshnuss/xml_builder Repository ↗

9fb4913 < d5c0aec affected
every other version: unaffected
default status unaffected
cpe cpe:2.3:a:joshnuss:xml_builder:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
modules · source files · routines
modules 'Elixir.XmlBuilder'
source files lib/xml_builder.ex
routines 'Elixir.XmlBuilder':generate/1 · 'Elixir.XmlBuilder':generate/2 · 'Elixir.XmlBuilder':element/1 · 'Elixir.XmlBuilder':element/2 · 'Elixir.XmlBuilder':element/3

References

Credits

Peter Ullrich Finder
Joshua Nussbaum Remediation developer
Jonatan Männchen / EEF Coordinator

CVSS breakdown

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:L/SA:N
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