Vulnerability CVE-2024-21501
Published: 2024-02-24

Description:
Versions of the package sanitize-html before 2.12.1 are vulnerable to Information Exposure when used on the backend and with the style attribute allowed, allowing enumeration of files in the system (including project dependencies). An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gather details about the file system structure and dependencies of the targeted server.

 References:
https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-SANITIZEHTML-6256334
https://gist.github.com/Slonser/8b4d061abe6ee1b2e10c7242987674cf
https://github.com/apostrophecms/sanitize-html/pull/650
https://github.com/apostrophecms/apostrophe/discussions/4436
https://github.com/apostrophecms/sanitize-html/commit/c5dbdf77fe8b836d3bf4554ea39edb45281ec0b4
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