CVE-2015-9251

Public on 2018-01-18

Modified on 2024-01-09

Description

jQuery before 3.0.0 is vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) attacks when a cross-domain Ajax request is performed without the dataType option, causing text/javascript responses to be executed.

Severity

Medium

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CVSS v3 Base Score

6.1

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Affected Packages

Platform	Package	Release Date	Advisory
Amazon Linux 2 - Core	ipa	2020-10-22 17:40	ALAS2-2020-1519
Amazon Linux 2 - Ruby2.6 Extra	ruby	2023-08-21 20:59	ALAS2RUBY2.6-2023-007
Amazon Linux 1	ruby24	2020-08-26 23:09	ALAS-2020-1422

CVSS Scores

	Score Type	Score	Vector
Amazon Linux	CVSSv3	6.1	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD	CVSSv2	4.3	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
NVD	CVSSv3	6.1	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

References

Red Hat: CVE-2015-9251 Mitre: CVE-2015-9251 FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity