GHSA-j6p2-cx3w-6jcp
Suggest an improvement- Source
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j6p2-cx3w-6jcp
- Import Source
- https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2019/02/GHSA-j6p2-cx3w-6jcp/GHSA-j6p2-cx3w-6jcp.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-j6p2-cx3w-6jcp
- Aliases
- Published
- 2019-02-18T23:39:55Z
- Modified
- 2023-11-08T03:58:11.272296Z
- Severity
-
- 5.4 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- Cross-Site Scripting in backbone
- Details
-
Affected versions of
backboneare vulnerable to cross-site scripting when users are allowed to supply input to theModel#Escapefunction, and the output is then written to the DOM.The vulnerability occurs as a result of the regular expression used to encode metacharacters failing to take HTML Entities such as
<into account.Recommendation
Update to version 0.5.0 or later.
- Database specific
{ "github_reviewed": true, "severity": "MODERATE", "cwe_ids": [ "CWE-79" ], "nvd_published_at": null, "github_reviewed_at": "2020-06-16T21:42:17Z" }- References
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- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10537
- https://github.com/jashkenas/backbone/commit/0cdc525961d3fa98e810ffae6bcc8e3838e36d93
- https://backbonejs.org/#changelog
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j6p2-cx3w-6jcp
- https://github.com/jashkenas/backbone/compare/0.3.3...0.5.0#diff-0d56d0d310de7ff18b3cef9c2f8f75dcL1008
- https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/108
Affected packages
npm / backbone
Package
- Name
- backbone
- View open source insights on deps.dev
- Purl
- pkg:npm/backbone