CPANSA-XAO-Web-2020-01: XAO-Web vulnerability

Publisher	giterlizzi	Document category	csaf_security_advisory
Initial release date	2020-09-18T00:00:00	Engine	CSAF Perl Toolkit 0.25
Current release date	2020-09-18T00:00:00	Build Date
Current version	1	Status	final
CVSS v3.1 Base Score	5.4	Severity
Original language		Language	en
Also referred to

Vulnerability Description

Embedded HTML in JSON data was not escaped.

Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-36827

Vulnerability Description

The XAO::Web module before 1.84 for Perl mishandles < and > characters in JSON output during use of json-embed in Web::Action.

Weakness	CWE-791 : Incomplete Filtering of Special Elements

Product status

Known affected

Product

Score

XAO-Web less than 1.84

CVSS Version	CVSS Vector	CVSS Base Score	CVSS Base Severity
3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N	5.4	Medium

Fixed

XAO-Web greater than or equal 1.84

giterlizzi

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gdt@cpan.org

References

CPANSA-XAO-Web-2020-01 JSON self
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/giterlizzi/perl-CPANSA-CSAF/develop/csaf/white/2020/cpansa-xao-web-2020-01.json
https://github.com/amaltsev/XAO-Web/commit/20dd1d3bc5b811503f5722a16037b60197fe7ef4 external
https://github.com/amaltsev/XAO-Web/commit/20dd1d3bc5b811503f5722a16037b60197fe7ef4
https://metacpan.org/release/AMALTSEV/XAO-Web-1.84/changes external
https://metacpan.org/release/AMALTSEV/XAO-Web-1.84/changes
CVE-2020-36827 (NVD) external
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-36827

Revision history

Version	Date of the revision	Summary of the revision
1	Fri Sep 18 00:00:00 2020	First release

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