CVE-2020-25739

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.

Risk Information

Base Score

6.1

MODERATE

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

0.763

Associated Vulnerability

Vulnerability	OS Platform
Vulnerabilities CVE-2020-25739 are fixed in Ruby-gon 6.4.0	Windows
Ruby library to send data to JavaScript from a Ruby application (USN-4560-1) ruby-gon_6.1.0-1+deb9u1build0.18.04.1_all.deb	Linux
Vulnerabilities CVE-2020-25739 are fixed in Ruby-gon for Linux 6.4.0	Linux

Patch Details

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234