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CVE-2017-14506
geminabox (aka Gem in a Box) before 0.13.6 has XSS, as demonstrated by uploading a gem file that has a crafted gem.homepage value in its…
Medium5.4EPSS 0.68%
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- Updated
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- mitre
Description
geminabox (aka Gem in a Box) before 0.13.6 has XSS, as demonstrated by uploading a gem file that has a crafted gem.homepage value in its .gemspec file.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.68% · top 47% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.4.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- RubyGemsgeminaboxGHSA-98hq-3qvg-pg78 (opens in a new tab)
References (2)
- http://baraktawily.blogspot.co.il/2017/09/gem-in-box-xss-vulenrability-cve-2017.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/geminabox/geminabox/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-98hq-3qvg-pg78 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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