CVE-2023-3978

Publication date 2 August 2023

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Text nodes not in the HTML namespace are incorrectly literally rendered, causing text which should be escaped to not be. This could lead to an XSS attack.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
containerd	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	23.10 mantic	Not affected
	23.04 lunar	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored
golang-golang-x-net	24.04 LTS noble	Needs evaluation
	23.10 mantic	Ignored
	23.04 lunar	Ignored
	22.04 LTS jammy	Needs evaluation
	20.04 LTS focal	Not in release
	18.04 LTS bionic	Ignored
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored
golang-golang-x-net-dev	24.04 LTS noble	Not in release
	23.10 mantic	Not in release
	23.04 lunar	Not in release
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not in release
	20.04 LTS focal	Needs evaluation
	18.04 LTS bionic	Needs evaluation
	16.04 LTS xenial	Needs evaluation
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored
google-guest-agent	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	23.10 mantic	Not affected
	23.04 lunar	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Notes

alexmurray

google-guest-agent contains a vendored copy of golang-golang-x-net

mdeslaur

containerd contains a vendored copy of golang-golang-x-net google-guest-agent does not contain the render.go file containerd does not contain the render.go file

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.1 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Changed
Confidentiality	Low
Integrity impact	Low
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N