XSS in Vega
CVE-2020-26296

8.7HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor

Vega

Status
Vega
Vendor
CVE Published:
30 December 2020

What is CVE-2020-26296?

Vega is a visualization grammar, a declarative format for creating, saving, and sharing interactive visualization designs. Vega in an npm package. In Vega before version 5.17.3 there is an XSS vulnerability in Vega expressions. Through a specially crafted Vega expression, an attacker could execute arbitrary javascript on a victim's machine. This is fixed in version 5.17.3

Affected Version(s)

vega < 5.17.3

References

https://github.com/vega/vega/security/advisories/GHSA-r2q...
x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/vega/vega/issues/3018
x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/vega/vega/pull/3019
x_refsource_MISC

CVSS V3.1

Score:
8.7
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
Required
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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