medium5.4
CVE-2016-10537
Cross-Site Scripting in backbone
Impact
Affected versions of `backbone` are vulnerable to cross-site scripting when users are allowed to supply input to the `Model#Escape` function, and the output is then written to the DOM. The vulnerability occurs as a result of the regular expression used to encode metacharacters failing to take HTML Entities such as `<` into account. ## Recommendation Update to version 0.5.0 or later.
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| npm | backbone | >= 0.3.3, < 0.5.0 | 0.5.0 |
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Backbone Project | Backbone | through 0.3.3 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- GitHub advisory
- https://github.com/jashkenas/backbone/compare/0.3.3...0.5.0#diff-0d56d0d310de7ff18b3cef9c2f8f75dcL1008
- https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/108
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j6p2-cx3w-6jcp
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10537
- https://github.com/jashkenas/backbone/commit/0cdc525961d3fa98e810ffae6bcc8e3838e36d93
- https://backbonejs.org/#changelog
- https://github.com/jashkenas/backbone/commit/7ae0384120c2552e1c426cda7fb02fdce6ef1076
- https://github.com/jashkenas/backbone/blame/0cdc525961d3fa98e810ffae6bcc8e3838e36d93/backbone.js