Cross-site scripting in jQuery - CVE-2020-23064

 

Cross-site scripting in jQuery - CVE-2020-23064

Published: September 13, 2023


Vulnerability identifier: #VU80757
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-23064
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data in jQuery 2. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.


Affected software

jQuery
Cloud Pak for Security (CP4S)
Juniper Secure Analytics (JSA)
openEuler
Log Analysis
IBM Decision Optimization for Cloud Pak for Data
IBM Security Verify Governance - Containerized Identity Manager
doxygen-debugsource
doxygen-debuginfo
doxygen-doxywizard
doxygen
Storage Copy Data Management
DB2 on Cloud Pak for Data
DB2 Warehouse on Cloud Pak for Data
IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Publishing
Robotic Process Automation for Cloud Pak
SINEMA Remote Connect Server
IBM Storage Scale System
AMQ Broker

How to mitigate CVE-2020-23064

Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability..

jQuery - update to 3.5.0
Cloud Pak for Security (CP4S) - update to 1.10.15.0
Juniper Secure Analytics (JSA) - update to 7.5.0 UP9 IF02
Log Analysis - update to 1.3.8
doxygen-debugsource - update to 1.8.17-8
doxygen-debuginfo - update to 1.8.17-8
doxygen-doxywizard - update to 1.8.17-8
doxygen - update to 1.8.17-8
Storage Copy Data Management - update to 2.2.26.0
SINEMA Remote Connect Server - update to 3.1
DB2 on Cloud Pak for Data - update to 4.8.5
DB2 Warehouse on Cloud Pak for Data - update to 4.8.5
IBM Decision Optimization for Cloud Pak for Data - update to 5.0
IBM Storage Scale System - addressed in versions 5.1.9.7, 5.2.2.0
IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Publishing - addressed in versions 7.0.2.27, 7.0.3.2
AMQ Broker - update to 7.13.0
IBM Security Verify Governance - Containerized Identity Manager - update to 10.0.2
Robotic Process Automation for Cloud Pak - addressed in versions 21.0.7.10, 23.0.10

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