UBUNTU-CVE-2012-6708

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2012-6708

    Published: 18 Jan 2018Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2012-6708
    Aliases:
    USN-7622-1

    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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2012-6708, https://snyk.io/vuln/npm:jquery:20120206, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-6708, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7622-1

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: jquery

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+dfsg-2ubuntu1+esm1?arch=source&distro=esm-infra-legacy/trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.7.2+dfsg-2ubuntu1+esm1

    Affected versions

    1.7.2+dfsg-2ubuntu1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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