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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2020-25739

MultiJson does not honor the escape_mode parameter to escape fields as an XSS protection mechanism.

MEDIUM 6.1EPSS 1.38%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.38%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

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.

CVSS 3.1
6.1 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS
1.38% probability · 70th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-79
Affected
gon project/gon · canonical/ubuntu linux · debian/debian linux
Source
cve@mitre.org

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.