USN-7622-1

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USN-7622-1

Summary: jquery vulnerabilities

Details: It was discovered that jQuery did not correctly handle HTML tags. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2012-6708) It was discovered that jQuery did not correctly handle unsanitized source objects due to prototype pollution. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack. (CVE-2019-11358) Masato Kinugawa discovered that jQuery did not correctly sanitize certain HTML elements. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-11022) Masato Kinugawa discovered that jQuery did not correctly sanitize certain HTML elements. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-11023)

References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7622-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2012-6708, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-11358, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-11022, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-11023