VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2020-25739

CVSS score6.1 MEDIUM
EPSS probability1.38%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2020-09-23
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Description

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.

Weakness classification

  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-79

Primary references