CVE-2021-37695
Execution of JavaScript code using malformed HTML in ckeditor
02 Description
Execution of JavaScript code using malformed HTML in ckeditor
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 1.31% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 70.2% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 5.4 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2021-08-12 23:10Z5 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-04 01:23Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2021-07-29
- Assigning CNA
- GitHub_M
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- High (CVSS 7.3)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 5b9c730946d215b52521b5953b6b62eb9a0ea82ee46326a3afc0a20512f8461d
05 Affected products
06 References
- github.comhttps://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor4/security/advisories/GHSA-m94c-37g6-cjhc
- github.comhttps://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor4/commit/de3c001540715f9c3801aaa38a1917de46cfcf58
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2021-51457da891https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NYA354LJP47KCVJMTUO77ZCX3ZK42G3T/
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2021-72176a63a8https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UVOYN2WKDPLKCNILIGEZM236ABQASLGW/
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2021-87578dca12https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WAGNWHFIQAVCP537KFFS2A2GDG66J7XD/
- www.oracle.comhttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html
- lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20211109 [SECURITY] [DLA 2813-1] ckeditor security updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00007.html
- www.oracle.comhttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- ckeditor Fixed in 4.16.2+dfsg-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- ldap-account-manager No fix yet
- request-tracker4 No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- ckeditor Fixed in 4.5.7+dfsg-2ubuntu0.18.04.1
- ckeditor3 No fix yet
- ldap-account-manager No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- ckeditor Fixed in 4.12.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1
- ckeditor3 No fix yet
- ldap-account-manager No fix yet
- request-tracker4 No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
- ckeditor3 No fix yet
- ldap-account-manager No fix yet
- request-tracker4 No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
- ckeditor3 No fix yet
- ldap-account-manager No fix yet
- request-tracker4 No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 25.10
- ldap-account-manager No fix yet
- request-tracker4 No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
- ldap-account-manager No fix yet
- request-tracker4 No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS
- ckeditor Fixed in 4.5.7+dfsg-2ubuntu0.16.04.1~esm1Available with Ubuntu Pro: https://ubuntu.com/pro
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS
- request-tracker4 No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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