Cross-site Scripting (XSS) The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package backbone (opens in a new tab)
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- published10 Sept 2020
- disclosed31 May 2018
Introduced: 31 May 2018
CVE-2016-10537 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream backbone package and not the backbone package as distributed by Ubuntu.
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 <.