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DEBIAN-CVE-2020-26298

DEBIAN-CVE-2020-26298 PUBLISHED CVSS 5.400000095367432 MEDIUM

Redcarpet is a Ruby library for Markdown processing. In Redcarpet before version 3.5.1, there is an injection vulnerability which can enable a cross-site scripting attack. In affected versions no HTML escaping was being performed when processing quotes. This applies even when the `:escape_html` option was being used. This is fixed in version 3.5.1 by the referenced commit.

Risk Scores

CVSS v3.1
5.400000095367432
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Debian:14ruby-redcarpet0, 0, 0
Debian:12ruby-redcarpet0, 0, 0
Debian:11ruby-redcarpet0, 0, 0
Debian:13ruby-redcarpet0, 0, 0

Timeline

  • Jan 11, 2021 CVE Published
  • Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated
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