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CVE-2016-10537GHSA-J6P2-CX3W-6JCP

backbone is a module that adds in structure to a JavaScript heavy application through key-value pairs and custom events connecting to your R

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Fix
Fixed in 0.5.0
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

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 `<`.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
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Affected versions

  • HackerOne backbone node module

    through 0.3.3

  • backbonenpm

    From 0.3.3 · fixed in 0.5.0

References 2

nodesecurity.io

GitHub · jashkenas/backbone