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FreeBSD: VID-2BFFDF2F-9D45-11E7-A25C-471BAFC3262F (CVE-2017-14506): rubygem-geminabox -- XSS & CSRF vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
09/18/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
09/19/2017
Modified
05/07/2019

Description

geminabox (aka Gem in a Box) before 0.13.6 has XSS, as demonstrated by uploading a gem file that has a crafted gem.homepage value in its .gemspec file.

Solution(s)

  • freebsd-upgrade-package-rubygem-geminabox

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