GHSA-r2qc-w64x-6j54

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    GHSA-r2qc-w64x-6j54

    Published: 30 Dec 2020Last Modified: 10 Sept 2026

    Summary: XSS in Vega

    Details: Vega is a visualization grammar, a declarative format for creating, saving, and sharing interactive visualization designs. Vega in an npm package. In Vega before version 5.17.3 there is an XSS vulnerability in Vega expressions. Through a specially crafted Vega expression, an attacker could execute arbitrary javascript on a victim's machine. This is fixed in version 5.17.3

    References: https://github.com/vega/vega/security/advisories/GHSA-r2qc-w64x-6j54, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-26296, https://github.com/vega/vega/issues/3018, https://github.com/vega/vega/pull/3019, https://github.com/vega/vega/releases/tag/v5.17.3, https://www.npmjs.com/package/vega

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: vega

    Purl: pkg:npm/vega

    Affected ranges

    Type: SEMVER

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -5.17.3

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
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    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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