GHSA-x43w-36pp-96g3 json
Missing case-insensitive matching for CSS url function
published 27d ago modified 25d ago also RUSTSEC-2026-0373
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Summary
URL filtering, such as relative URLs and URL scheme limits, is not always applied when CSS sanitization is used.
When the inner URL is quoted, CSS `url("")` is matched case-sensitively, when it should be matched case-insensitively. As a result, while `url("")` gets the intended domain name filtering, `URL("")` does not.
The following example shows how an application needs to be configured to trigger this bug.
```rust let mut builder = Builder::new(); // allow inline styles builder.filter_style_properties(hashset!["background-image"]); builder.add_generic_attributes(&["style"]); // notice that "http" URLs aren't allowed builder.url_schemes(["cid"].into());
// attacker-controlled, presumably let cleaned = builder.clean(r#"<div style='background:URL("https://evil.com/ping");'>"#);
// this is the expected result assert_eq!(String::from(&cleaned), r#"<div style="">ok</p>"#);
// this is the result that the vulnerable version actually gets assert_eq!(String::from(&cleaned), r#"<div style="background-image:URL("https://evil.com/ping");">ok</p>"#); ```
This can be used to inject tracking pixels where the application intended to prevent them. It does not allow XSS, and its usefulness for data exfiltration is limited.
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This vulnerability was reported by [Louis Li](https://github.com/zhixuli0406).
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| ecosystem | package | affected | fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| crates.io | ammonia | >=0.0.0-0, <4.1.8 >=4.2.0, <4.2.4 |
4.1.8 4.2.4 |
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