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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2021-3427: Deluge: Cross-Site Scripting

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2021-3427: Deluge: Cross-Site Scripting

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/26/2022
Created
10/18/2022
Added
10/17/2022
Modified
10/17/2022

Description

The Deluge Web-UI is vulnerable to XSS through a crafted torrent file. The the data from torrent files is not properly sanitised as it's interpreted directly as HTML. Someone who supplies the user with a malicious torrent file can execute arbitrary Javascript code in the context of the user's browser session.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-net-p2p-deluge

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