6.1
CVSSv3

CVE-2012-6708

Published: 18/01/2018 Updated: 07/11/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.3 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
CVSS v3 Base Score: 6.1 | Impact Score: 2.7 | Exploitability Score: 2.8
VMScore: 383
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Summary

jQuery prior to 1.9.0 is vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) attacks. The jQuery(strInput) function does not differentiate selectors from HTML in a reliable fashion. In vulnerable versions, jQuery determined whether the input was HTML by looking for the '<' character anywhere in the string, giving attackers more flexibility when attempting to construct a malicious payload. In fixed versions, jQuery only deems the input to be HTML if it explicitly starts with the '<' character, limiting exploitability only to attackers who can control the beginning of a string, which is far less common.

Vulnerability Trend

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Vendor Advisories

Ruby through 247, 25x through 256, and 26x through 264 allows HTTP Response Splitting If a program using WEBrick inserts untrusted input into the response header, an attacker can exploit it to insert a newline character to split a header, and inject malicious content to deceive clients NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fi ...
jQuery before 190 is vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) attacks The jQuery(strInput) function does not differentiate selectors from HTML in a reliable fashion In vulnerable versions, jQuery determined whether the input was HTML by looking for the '&lt;' character anywhere in the string, giving attackers more flexibility when attempting to ...
Severity Unknown Remote Unknown Type Unknown Description AVG-1041 ruby-rdoc 611-1 612-1 Unknown Fixed FS#63978 AVG-1040 ruby25 256-1 257-1 Medium Fixed ...

Exploits

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Github Repositories

Bug in https://github.com/jeremylong/DependencyCheck

Reproduce with: gradle dependencyCheckAnalyze Open build/reports/dependency-check-reporthtml CVE is missing, first info link points to the jquery issue which in turn is referred to by this CVE: nvdnistgov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-6708