CVE-2020-26298: Redcarpet is a Ruby library for Markdown processing. In Redcarpet before version 3.5.1, there is an injection vulnerability which can enable a cross-site…

PriorityP428medium5.4CVSS 3.1

AVNACLPRLUIRSCCLILAN

EPSS

1.57%

72.9th percentile

Redcarpet is a Ruby library for Markdown processing. In Redcarpet before version 3.5.1, there is an injection vulnerability which can enable a cross-site scripting attack. In affected versions no HTML escaping was being performed when processing quotes. This applies even when the `:escape_html` option was being used. This is fixed in version 3.5.1 by the referenced commit.

Affected

6 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	debian_linux	—	—
debian	debian_linux	—	—
debian	ruby-redcarpet	< ruby-redcarpet 3.5.1-1 (bookworm)	ruby-redcarpet 3.5.1-1 (bookworm)
redcarpet_project	redcarpet	< 3.5.1	3.5.1
redcarpet_project	redcarpet	>= 0 < 3.5.1	3.5.1
vmg	redcarpet	< 3.5.1	3.5.1

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.15.4MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

nvdv2.03.5LOWAV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

osv5.4MEDIUM

vendor_debian6.8MEDIUM

vendor_redhat6.8MEDIUM

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