GHSA-q3wr-qw3g-3p4hMediumCVSS 6.8
Injection/XSS in Redcarpet
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
Redcarpet is a Ruby library for Markdown processing. In Redcarpet before version 3.5.1, there is an injection vulnerability which can enable a cross-site scripting attack. In affected versions no HTML escaping was being performed when processing quotes. This applies even when the :escape_html option was being used. This is fixed in version 3.5.1 by the referenced commit.
🎯 Affected products1
- rubygems/redcarpet:< 3.5.1
🔗 References (11)
- https://github.com/vmg/redcarpet/commit/a699c82292b17c8e6a62e1914d5eccc252272793
- https://github.com/vmg/redcarpet/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#version-351-security
- https://rubygems.org/gems/redcarpet
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-26298
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q3wr-qw3g-3p4h
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/01/msg00014.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4831
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/redcarpet/CVE-2020-26298.yml
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/BFMYDIONVWATY7EB6EARDVXT47AYCRNM/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/FNO4ZZUPGAEUXKQL4G2HRIH7CUZKPCT6/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/PXNNWHHAPREDM3XJDACYRTK7DBMUONBI/