CVE-2024-27285
YARD's default template vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting in generated frames.html
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 5.4 Medium
- Published
- Feb 28, 2024
- Updated
- Feb 13, 2025
- Reserved
- Feb 22, 2024
Description
YARD is a Ruby Documentation tool. The "frames.html" file within the Yard Doc's generated documentation is vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks due to inadequate sanitization of user input within the JavaScript segment of the "frames.erb" template file. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.9.36.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 5.4 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N | GitHub_M |
Weaknesses
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
yardlsegal |
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References
- https://github.com/lsegal/yard/security/advisories/GHSA-8mq4-9jjh-9xrc
- https://github.com/lsegal/yard/pull/1538
- https://github.com/lsegal/yard/commit/1fcb2d8b316caf8779cfdcf910715e9ab583f0aa
- https://github.com/lsegal/yard/commit/2069e2bf08293bda2fcc78f7d0698af6354054be
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/yard/CVE-2024-27285.yml
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/03/msg00006.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MR3Z2E2UIZZ7YOR7R645EVSBGWMB2RGA/
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