ubuntu-cve-2012-6708
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2018-01-18 23:29
Modified
2025-07-18 16:42
Summary
Details

jQuery before 1.9.0 is vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) attacks. The jQuery(strInput) function does not differentiate selectors from HTML in a reliable fashion. In vulnerable versions, jQuery determined whether the input was HTML by looking for the '<' character anywhere in the string, giving attackers more flexibility when attempting to construct a malicious payload. In fixed versions, jQuery only deems the input to be HTML if it explicitly starts with the '<' character, limiting exploitability only to attackers who can control the beginning of a string, which is far less common.

Severity
6.1 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
N/A (UNKNOWN)
low
References
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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "availability": "Available with Ubuntu Pro with Legacy support add-on: https://ubuntu.com/pro",
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "libjs-jquery",
            "binary_version": "1.7.2+dfsg-2ubuntu1+esm1"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS",
        "name": "jquery",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/jquery@1.7.2+dfsg-2ubuntu1+esm1?arch=source\u0026distro=esm-infra-legacy/trusty"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "1.7.2+dfsg-2ubuntu1+esm1"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "1.7.2+dfsg-2ubuntu1"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "jQuery before 1.9.0 is vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) attacks. The jQuery(strInput) function does not differentiate selectors from HTML in a reliable fashion. In vulnerable versions, jQuery determined whether the input was HTML by looking for the \u0027\u003c\u0027 character anywhere in the string, giving attackers more flexibility when attempting to construct a malicious payload. In fixed versions, jQuery only deems the input to be HTML if it explicitly starts with the \u0027\u003c\u0027 character, limiting exploitability only to attackers who can control the beginning of a string, which is far less common.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2012-6708",
  "modified": "2025-07-18T16:42:48Z",
  "published": "2018-01-18T23:29:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2012-6708"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://snyk.io/vuln/npm:jquery:20120206"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-6708"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7622-1"
    }
  ],
  "related": [
    "USN-7622-1"
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "low",
      "type": "Ubuntu"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2012-6708"
  ]
}



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