vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-6419-1 (CVE-2016-7103): jQuery UI vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Mar 15, 2017
Added
Oct 6, 2023
Modified
May 5, 2025

Description

Hong Phat Ly discovered that jQuery UI did not properly manage parameters
from untrusted sources, which could lead to arbitrary web script or HTML
code injection. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform
a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack. This issue only affected
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-7103)

Esben Sparre Andreasen discovered that jQuery UI did not properly handle
values from untrusted sources in the Datepicker widget. A remote attacker
could possibly use this issue to perform a cross-site scripting (XSS)
attack and execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
(CVE-2021-41182, CVE-2021-41183)

It was discovered that jQuery UI did not properly validate values from
untrusted sources. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a
denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-41184)

It was discovered that the jQuery UI checkboxradio widget did not properly
decode certain values from HTML entities. An attacker could possibly use
this issue to perform a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack and cause a
denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-31160)

Solution

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libjs-jquery-ui
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