Gem in a Box vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting

MEDIO 5.4CVE-2017-14506 · GHSA-98hq-3qvg-pg78 · Published 25/09/2017 · updated 17/06/2026

En resumen

CVE-2017-14506 es una vulnerabilidad MEDIO (CVSS 5.4) que afecta a geminabox, geminabox (geminabox project).
Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días (EPSS): 0.68%, mayor que el 52.6% de las vulnerabilidades.
Solución: actualizar a 0.13.6 o posterior.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
geminabox RubyGems	`< 0.13.6`	`0.13.6`
geminabox geminabox_project	`≤ 0.13.5`	No fix yet

Description

geminabox (aka Gem in a Box) before 0.13.6 is vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS), as demonstrated by uploading a gem file that has a crafted gem.homepage value in its .gemspec file.

NVD description

geminabox (aka Gem in a Box) before 0.13.6 has XSS, as demonstrated by uploading a gem file that has a crafted gem.homepage value in its .gemspec file.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-14506 · ADVISORY
geminabox/geminabox commit 99aaae1 · WEB
geminabox/geminabox · PACKAGE
geminabox/geminabox · WEB
baraktawily.blogspot.co.il/2017/09/gem-in-box-xss-vulenrability-cve-2017.html · WEB

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

geminabox

RubyGems

< 0.13.6

0.13.6

geminabox

geminabox_project

≤ 0.13.5

No fix yet

Description

geminabox (aka Gem in a Box) before 0.13.6 is vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS), as demonstrated by uploading a gem file that has a crafted gem.homepage value in its .gemspec file.

NVD description

geminabox (aka Gem in a Box) before 0.13.6 has XSS, as demonstrated by uploading a gem file that has a crafted gem.homepage value in its .gemspec file.