Name: CVE-2020-25739: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2020-09-23T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2020-25739, CWE-79, CVSS 6.1, EPSS 0.00763

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.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 6.1
CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Debian	—	Upgrade ruby-gon	Sep 28, 2020	Sep 23, 2020
Ubuntu	—	Upgrade ruby-gon	Mar 22, 2023	Sep 23, 2020

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CVSS Details

Covered by Rapid7

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