Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Affecting backbone package, versions <0.5.3-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (21st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-BACKBONE-527286
  • published31 May 2018
  • disclosed31 May 2018

Introduced: 31 May 2018

CVE-2016-10537  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 backbone to version 0.5.3-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream backbone package and not the backbone package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

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 &lt; to &lt;.