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DEBIAN-CVE-2016-10537

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...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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 <.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 backbone

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.5.3-1"}]}]

Debian:13 backbone

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.5.3-1"}]}]

Debian:14 backbone

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.5.3-1"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org