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1 files changed, 20 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/html/template/js.go b/src/html/template/js.go
index b159af8e4b..d911ada26d 100644
--- a/src/html/template/js.go
+++ b/src/html/template/js.go
@@ -171,13 +171,31 @@ func jsValEscaper(args ...any) string {
// cyclic data. This may be an unacceptable DoS risk.
b, err := json.Marshal(a)
if err != nil {
- // Put a space before comment so that if it is flush against
+ // While the standard JSON marshaller does not include user controlled
+ // information in the error message, if a type has a MarshalJSON method,
+ // the content of the error message is not guaranteed. Since we insert
+ // the error into the template, as part of a comment, we attempt to
+ // prevent the error from either terminating the comment, or the script
+ // block itself.
+ //
+ // In particular we:
+ // * replace "*/" comment end tokens with "* /", which does not
+ // terminate the comment
+ // * replace "</script" with "\x3C/script", and "<!--" with
+ // "\x3C!--", which prevents confusing script block termination
+ // semantics
+ //
+ // We also put a space before the comment so that if it is flush against
// a division operator it is not turned into a line comment:
// x/{{y}}
// turning into
// x//* error marshaling y:
// second line of error message */null
- return fmt.Sprintf(" /* %s */null ", strings.ReplaceAll(err.Error(), "*/", "* /"))
+ errStr := err.Error()
+ errStr = strings.ReplaceAll(errStr, "*/", "* /")
+ errStr = strings.ReplaceAll(errStr, "</script", `\x3C/script`)
+ errStr = strings.ReplaceAll(errStr, "<!--", `\x3C!--`)
+ return fmt.Sprintf(" /* %s */null ", errStr)
}
// TODO: maybe post-process output to prevent it from containing