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  1. Medium, CVSS 6.8RubyGemsPublished

    Injection/XSS in Redcarpet

    CVE-2020-26298 · GHSA-q3wr-qw3g-3p4h

    Affected
    • RubyGems redcarpet < 3.5.1
    Fixed in
    3.5.1· Vendor fix available
    Issue
    Redcarpet is a Ruby library for Markdown processing. In Redcarpet before version 3.5.1, there is an injection vulnerability which can enable a cross-site scripting attack. In affected versions no HTML escaping was being performed when processing quotes. This applies even when the :escapehtml option was being used. This is fixed in version 3.5.1 by the referenced commit.

    Recommended action: Upgrade to 3.5.1 or later, then redeploy and verify.A vendor fix does not resolve your finding until you verify it in your own systems.

    Sources:github.comSource checked Evidence →
  2. UnratedRubyGemsPublished

    redcarpet Buffer Overflow vulnerability

    CVE-2015-5147 · GHSA-7322-9mx6-5j2m

    Affected
    • RubyGems redcarpet >= 3.3.0, < 3.3.2
    Fixed in
    3.3.2· Vendor fix available
    Issue
    Stack-based buffer overflow in the headeranchor function in the HTML renderer in Redcarpet before 3.3.2 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

    Recommended action: Upgrade to 3.3.2 or later, then redeploy and verify.A vendor fix does not resolve your finding until you verify it in your own systems.

    Sources:github.comSource checked Evidence →