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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2012-6708: Security patch for ruby24 (ALAS-2020-1422)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2012-6708: Security patch for ruby24 (ALAS-2020-1422)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
01/18/2018
Created
09/02/2020
Added
09/01/2020
Modified
09/01/2020

Description

jQuery before 1.9.0 is vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) attacks. The jQuery(strInput) function does not differentiate selectors from HTML in a reliable fashion. In vulnerable versions, jQuery determined whether the input was HTML by looking for the '<' character anywhere in the string, giving attackers more flexibility when attempting to construct a malicious payload. In fixed versions, jQuery only deems the input to be HTML if it explicitly starts with the '<' character, limiting exploitability only to attackers who can control the beginning of a string, which is far less common.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-ruby24

References

  • ALAS-2020-1422
  • CVE-2012-6708

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