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Debian: CVE-2020-25739: ruby-gon -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2020-25739: ruby-gon -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
09/23/2020
Created
09/28/2020
Added
09/28/2020
Modified
10/01/2020

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)

  • debian-upgrade-ruby-gon

References

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