GHSA-j6p2-cx3w-6jcpMediumCVSS 5.4
Cross-Site Scripting in backbone
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 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.
🎯 Affected products1
- npm/backbone:>= 0.3.3, < 0.5.0
🔗 References (7)
- 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