CVE-2016-10537

Summary

CVECVE-2016-10537
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-05-31 20:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-10-09 23:16:00 UTC
Descriptionbackbone is a module that adds in structure to a JavaScript heavy application through key-value pairs and custom events connecting to your RESTful API through JSON There exists a potential Cross Site Scripting vulnerability in the `Model#Escape` function of backbone 0.3.3 and earlier, if a user is able to supply input. This is due to the regex that's replacing things to miss the conversion of things such as `<` to `<`.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-79

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Backbone Project Backbone All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Overview MISC nodesecurity.io Third Party Advisory
Comparing 0.3.3...0.5.0 · jashkenas/backbone · GitHub MISC github.com Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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