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CVE-2015-9251: Cross-site Scripting

January 18, 2018 (updated June 10, 2019)

The jQuery library, which is included in rdoc, is vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) attacks when a cross-domain Ajax request is performed without the dataType option, causing text/javascript responses to be executed.

References

  • www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2019/08/28/multiple-jquery-vulnerabilities-in-rdoc/

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Affected versions

All versions before 6.1.2

Fixed versions

  • 6.1.2

Solution

Upgrade to version 6.1.2 or above

Impact 6.1 MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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Weakness

  • CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Source file

gem/rdoc/CVE-2015-9251.yml

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