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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-2813-1 ckeditor -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

09 Nov 2021

Affected Packages:

ckeditor

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 992290.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2021-33829, CVE-2021-37695.

More information:

CKEditor, an open source WYSIWYG HTML editor with rich content support, which can be embedded into web pages, had two vulnerabilites as follows:

• CVE-2021-33829

  A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the HTML Data Processor in CKEditor 4 allows remote attackers to inject executable JavaScript code through a crafted comment because --!> is mishandled.

• CVE-2021-37695

  A potential vulnerability has been discovered in CKEditor 4 Fake Objects package. The vulnerability allowed to inject malformed Fake Objects HTML, which could result in executing JavaScript code.

For Debian 9 stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 4.5.7+dfsg-2+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your ckeditor packages.

For the detailed security status of ckeditor please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/ckeditor

Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS