CVE-2020-25739

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Published 2020-09-18 · Modified 2024-02-19

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CVSS v3

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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

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Description

An issue was discovered in the gon gem before gon-6.4.0 for Ruby. MultiJson does not honor the escape_mode parameter to escape fields as an XSS protection mechanism. To mitigate, json_dumper.rb in gon now does escaping for XSS by default without relying on MultiJson.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

30%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Debian Fixed 2 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
bullseye	Fixed	`6.4.0-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`6.4.0-1`

Package impact

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable	Fixed
RubyGems	gon	`<>= 6.4.0`	`>= 6.4.0`
RubyGems	gon	`<6.4.0`	`6.4.0`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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