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Ubuntu: USN-4560-1 (CVE-2020-25739): Gon gem vulnerability

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Ubuntu: USN-4560-1 (CVE-2020-25739): Gon gem vulnerability

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
09/23/2020
Created
03/29/2023
Added
03/22/2023
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

An issue was discovered in the gon gem before gon-6.4.0 for Ruby. MultiJson does not honor the escape_mode parameter to escape fields as an XSS protection mechanism. To mitigate, json_dumper.rb in gon now does escaping for XSS by default without relying on MultiJson.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-ruby-gon

References

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