CVE-2019-16769 (GCVE-0-2019-16769)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-12-05 18:55 – Updated: 2024-08-05 01:24
VLAI
Title
Affected versions of serialize-javascript are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS)
Summary
The serialize-javascript npm package before version 2.1.1 is vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS). It does not properly mitigate against unsafe characters in serialized regular expressions. This vulnerability is not affected on Node.js environment since Node.js's implementation of RegExp.prototype.toString() backslash-escapes all forward slashes in regular expressions. If serialized data of regular expression objects are used in an environment other than Node.js, it is affected by this vulnerability.
Severity
4.2 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Cross-site Scripting (XSS)
Assigner
GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 7690 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
yahoo serialize-javascript Affected: < 2.1.1 , < 2.1.1 (custom)
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