An issue was discovered in the gon gem before gon-6.4.0 for Ruby. MultiJson does not honor the escape_mode parameter to escape fields as an XSS protection mechanism. To mitigate, json_dumper.rb in gon now does escaping for XSS by default without relying on MultiJson.

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Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-2380-1 ruby-gon security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-0786 An issue was discovered in the gon gem before gon-6.4.0 for Ruby. MultiJson does not honor the escape_mode parameter to escape fields as an XSS protection mechanism. To mitigate, json_dumper.rb in gon now does escaping for XSS by default without relying on MultiJson.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-78vq-9j56-wrfr Gon gem lack of escaping certain input when outputting as JSON
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4560-1 Gon gem vulnerability
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

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Updated: 2024-08-04T15:40:36.985Z

Reserved: 2020-09-17T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2020-25739

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Status : Modified

Published: 2020-09-23T14:15:12.947

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:18:37.593

Link: CVE-2020-25739

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