GHSA-98hq-3qvg-pg78

Gem in a Box vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2017-14506

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
RubyGems	geminabox	< 0.13.6	0.13.6

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

geminabox (aka Gem in a Box) before 0.13.6 is vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS), as demonstrated by uploading a gem file that has a crafted gem.homepage value in its .gemspec file.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-14506 advisory
https://github.com/geminabox/geminabox/commit/99aaae196c4fc6ae0df28e186ca1e493ae658e02 web
https://github.com/geminabox/geminabox package
https://github.com/geminabox/geminabox/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md web
http://baraktawily.blogspot.co.il/2017/09/gem-in-box-xss-vulenrability-cve-2017.html web