CVE-2024-45801

unknown
Published 2024-09-16 · Modified 2026-02-04
CVSS v3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L
CVSS v2
VIR risk

Description

DOMPurify is a DOM-only, super-fast, uber-tolerant XSS sanitizer for HTML, MathML and SVG. It has been discovered that malicious HTML using special nesting techniques can bypass the depth checking added to DOMPurify in recent releases. It was also possible to use Prototype Pollution to weaken the depth check. This renders dompurify unable to avoid cross site scripting (XSS) attacks. This issue has been addressed in versions 2.5.4 and 3.1.3 of DOMPurify. All users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
30%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-45801

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed2.4.1+dfsg+~2.4.0-2+deb12u1
debian debianforkyfixed0
debian debiansidfixed0
debian debiantrixiefixed0

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
npm npmdompurify<2.5.42.5.4
npm npmdompurify>=3.0.0,<3.1.33.1.3

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.