CVE-2017-16792: Cross-site Scripting

November 13, 2017 (updated September 26, 2019)

A stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in geminabox (Gem in a Box) allows attackers to inject arbitrary web script via the homepage value of a .gemspec file, related to views/gem.erb and views/index.erb.

References

github.com/geminabox/geminabox/commit/f8429a9e364658459add170e4ebc7a5d3b4759e7
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16792

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