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Debian: CVE-2016-10537: backbone -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2016-10537: backbone -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
05/31/2018
Created
07/31/2024
Added
07/30/2024
Modified
07/30/2024

Description

backbone 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 `<`.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-backbone

References

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