Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Affecting geminabox package, versions <0.13.6


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (35th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RUBY-GEMINABOX-20436
  • published5 Nov 2017
  • disclosed18 Sept 2017
  • creditBarak Tawily

Introduced: 18 Sep 2017

CVE-2017-14506  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade geminabox to version 0.13.6 or higher.

Overview

geminabox is a sinatra based gem hosting app, with client side gem push style functionality.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) attacks. geminabox (aka Gem in a Box) before 0.13.6 has XSS, as demonstrated by uploading a gem file that has a crafted gem.homepage value in its .gemspec file.

Details

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