CVE-2017-14506 (GCVE-0-2017-14506)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-09-25 08:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 19:27
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
5.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2017-09-25 00:00
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