GitHub Advisoryadvisory · RubyGems
GHSA-q3wr-qw3g-3p4h Injection/XSS in Redcarpet
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2020-26298
- Ecosystem
- RubyGems
- Packages
- redcarpet
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-74, CWE-79
- Reviewed
- 2021-01-11
Affected packages
• RubyGems redcarpet: < 3.5.1 → fixed in 3.5.1
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.
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Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2020-26298 Redcarpet is a Ruby library for Markdown processing. vulnerability
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-26298 advisory
- https://github.com/vmg/redcarpet/commit/a699c82292b17c8e6a62e1914d5eccc252272793 web
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q3wr-qw3g-3p4h advisory
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/redcarpet/CVE-2020-26298.yml web
- https://github.com/vmg/redcarpet package
- https://github.com/vmg/redcarpet/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#version-351-security web
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/01/msg00014.html web
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/BFMYDIONVWATY7EB6EARDVXT47AYCRNM web
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/FNO4ZZUPGAEUXKQL4G2HRIH7CUZKPCT6 web
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/PXNNWHHAPREDM3XJDACYRTK7DBMUONBI web
- https://rubygems.org/gems/redcarpet web
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4831 web