jashkenas/backbone · Security
Cross-Site Scripting in backbone
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-j6p2-cx3w-6jcp
- CVE ID
- CVE-2016-10537
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 5.4 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CVSS v3
- 5.4 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Description
Affected versions of backbone are vulnerable to cross-site scripting when users are allowed to supply input to the Model#Escape function, 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.
CWEs
- CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10537 ↗
- https://github.com/jashkenas/backbone/commit/0cdc525961d3fa98e810ffae6bcc8e3838e36d93 ↗
- https://backbonejs.org/#changelog ↗
- https://github.com/jashkenas/backbone/compare/0.3.3...0.5.0#diff-0d56d0d310de7ff18b3cef9c2f8f75dcL1008 ↗
- https://github.com/jashkenas/backbone/commit/7ae0384120c2552e1c426cda7fb02fdce6ef1076 ↗
- https://github.com/jashkenas/backbone/blame/0cdc525961d3fa98e810ffae6bcc8e3838e36d93/backbone.js ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j6p2-cx3w-6jcp ↗