CVE-2016-10537
Cross-Site Scripting in backbone
5.4
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.19%
Description
backbone is a module that adds in structure to a JavaScript heavy application through key-value pairs and custom events connecting to your RESTful API through JSON There exists a potential Cross Site Scripting vulnerability in the `Model#Escape` function of backbone 0.3.3 and earlier, if a user is able to supply input. This is due to the regex that's replacing things to miss the conversion of things such as `<` to `<`.
How to fix CVE-2016-10537
To remediate CVE-2016-10537, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 0.5.3-1 or later
- —upgrade to 0.5.0 or later
Is CVE-2016-10537 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.2%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 0.5.3-1
- >= 0.3.3, < 0.5.0
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.4 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |