UBUNTU-CVE-2012-6708

Advisory lineage Upstream: 1 Downstream: 1
Upstream
CVE-2012-6708
Downstream
USN-7622-1
Published: 18 Jan 2018, 23:29
Last modified:04 Feb 2026, 02:15

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
low
24/100
CVSS Score
6.1 MEDIUM
3.0 (osv_ubuntu)
EPSS Score
No data
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

18 Jan 2018, 23:29
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
04 Feb 2026, 02:15
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

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.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.0•MEDIUM•Score: 6.1CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected Systems

  • ubuntu•jquery

    < 1.7.2+dfsg-2ubuntu1+esm1

References (4)