vulnerability
Debian: CVE-2020-26298: ruby-redcarpet -- security update
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N) | Jan 11, 2021 | Jan 18, 2021 | Aug 15, 2025 |
Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Jan 11, 2021
Added
Jan 18, 2021
Modified
Aug 15, 2025
Description
Redcarpet is a Ruby library for Markdown processing. In Redcarpet before version 3.5.1, there is an injection vulnerability which can enable a cross-site scripting attack. In affected versions no HTML escaping was being performed when processing quotes. This applies even when the `:escape_html` option was being used. This is fixed in version 3.5.1 by the referenced commit.
Solution
debian-upgrade-ruby-redcarpet
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