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Cross-Site Scripting in serialize-javascript

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Dec 4, 2019 in yahoo/serialize-javascript • Updated Jan 9, 2023

Package

npm serialize-javascript (npm)

Affected versions

< 2.1.1

Patched versions

2.1.1

Description

Versions of serialize-javascript prior to 2.1.1 are vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS). The package fails to sanitize serialized regular expressions. This vulnerability does not affect Node.js applications.

Recommendation

Upgrade to version 2.1.1 or later.

References

@redonkulus redonkulus published to yahoo/serialize-javascript Dec 4, 2019
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Dec 5, 2019
Reviewed Jun 16, 2020
Last updated Jan 9, 2023

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
Low

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L

EPSS score

0.054%
(24th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2019-16769

GHSA ID

GHSA-h9rv-jmmf-4pgx

Source code

No known source code
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