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CVE-2016-10537

UNKNOWN
Published 2018-05-31T20:00:00Z
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Description

backbone is a module that adds in structure to a JavaScript heavy application through key-value pairs and custom events connecting to your RESTful API through JSON There exists a potential Cross Site Scripting vulnerability in the `Model#Escape` function of backbone 0.3.3 and earlier, if a user is able to supply input. This is due to the regex that's replacing things to miss the conversion of things such as `<` to `<`.

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Affected Products

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backbone node module

Affected Versions:

<= 0.3.3

GitHub Security Advisories

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Cross-Site Scripting in backbone

GHSA-j6p2-cx3w-6jcp

Advisory Details

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 `&#60;` into account. ## Recommendation Update to version 0.5.0 or later.

Affected Packages

npm backbone
ECOSYSTEM: ≥0 <0.5.0

CVSS Scoring

CVSS Score

5.0

CVSS Vector

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

References

ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10537
WEB https://github.com/jashkenas/backbone/commit/0cdc525961d3fa98e810ffae6bcc8e3838e36d93
WEB https://backbonejs.org/#changelog
ADVISORY https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j6p2-cx3w-6jcp
WEB https://github.com/jashkenas/backbone/compare/0.3.3...0.5.0#diff-0d56d0d310de7ff18b3cef9c2f8f75dcL1008
WEB https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/108

Advisory provided by GitHub Security Advisory Database. Published: February 18, 2019, Modified: September 13, 2023

References

https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/108
https://github.com/jashkenas/backbone/compare/0.3.3...0.5.0#diff-0d56d0d310de7ff18b3cef9c2f8f75dcL1008
Published: 2018-05-31T20:00:00Z
Last Modified: 2024-09-17T04:14:50.404Z
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