ISOMAN

CVE

CVE-2020-25739

An issue was discovered in the gon gem before gon-6.4.0 for Ruby. MultiJson does not honor the escape_mode parameter to escape fields as an XSS protection mechanism. To mitigate, json_dumper.rb in gon now does escaping for XSS by default without relying on MultiJson.

Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
6.1
Published
Modified

Linked Releases

DistributionReleaseStatusEvidence
Ubuntu18.04.6 amd64 desktopunknownsource
Ubuntu18.04.6 amd64 live-serverunknownsource

References

  1. https://github.com/gazay/gon/commit/fe3c7b2191a992386dc9edd37de5447a4e809bc7
  2. https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00018.html
  3. https://usn.ubuntu.com/4560-1/
  4. https://github.com/gazay/gon/commit/fe3c7b2191a992386dc9edd37de5447a4e809bc7
  5. https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00018.html
  6. https://usn.ubuntu.com/4560-1/