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Advisory details: gitlab / npm/yui/CVE-2013-4942
Advisory ID gitlab/npm/yui/CVE-2013-4942
Aliases CVE-2013-4942
GHSA-9ww8-j8j2-3788
Summary YUI Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in flashuploader.swf in the Uploader component in Yahoo! YUI 3.5.0 through 3.9.1, as used in Moodle through 2.1.10, 2.2.x before 2.2.11, 2.3.x before 2.3.8, 2.4.x before 2.4.5, 2.5.x before 2.5.1, and other products, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted string in a URL.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 0.0
Risk
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Introduced and Fixed Package Commit Patches Package Commit Patches Details
Weaknesses (3)
CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CWE-937 OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-1035 OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
System Score Found at
cvssv2 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/npm/yui/CVE-2013-4942.yml
cvssv3.1 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/npm/yui/CVE-2013-4942.yml
Reference id Reference type URL
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=232496
https://web.archive.org/web/20130909203912/http://yuilibrary.com/support/20130515-vulnerability
CVE-2013-4942 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4942
GHSA-9ww8-j8j2-3788 https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9ww8-j8j2-3788
No exploits are available.

No EPSS data available for this advisory.

Patch URL
There are no known patches.
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N Found at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/npm/yui/CVE-2013-4942.yml
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

high

functional

unproven

proof_of_concept

not_defined

local

adjacent_network

network

high

medium

low

multiple

single

none

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N Found at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/npm/yui/CVE-2013-4942.yml
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none

There are no SSVC decisions available.