An issue was discovered in the gon gem before gon-6.4.0 for Ruby. MultiJson does not honor the escape_mode parameter to escape fields as an XSS protection mechanism. To mitigate, json_dumper.rb in gon now does escaping for XSS by default without relying on MultiJson.
CVSS 2.0
Severity: MEDIUM
Problem Type: CWE-79,
Products Affected
| Vendor | Product | Version |
|---|---|---|
| gon_project | gon | * |
| debian | debian_linux | 9.0 |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 18.04 |