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Missing case-insensitive matching for CSS url function

Type: advisorySources: OSV

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#""#); // this is the expected result assert_eq!(String::from(&cleaned), r#"ok "#); // this is the result that the vulnerable version actually gets assert_eq!(String::from(&cleaned), r#"ok "#); ``` 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. --- This vulnerability was reported by [Louis Li](https://github.com/zhixuli0406).

Products
ammonia
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
4.1.8, 4.2.4
CVEs
Not specified
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
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31 Oct 2026, 03:47 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

Missing case-insensitive matching for CSS url function

core-osv · Original source

Published 16 Oct 2026, 12:00 UTC

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#""#); // this is the expected result assert_eq!(String::from(&cleaned), r#"ok "#); // this is the result that the vulnerable version actually gets assert_eq!(String::from(&cleaned), r#"ok "#); ``` 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. --- This vulnerability was reported by [Louis Li](https://github.com/zhixuli0406).

osv:RUSTSEC-2026-0373

ammonia

Fixed versions: 4.1.8, 4.2.4

Complete source record
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