Security advisory

{
  "id": "03e8fca2fbc8970f84d778962de41bcbfd8b241f30e936521015c549e7ee58ff",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-16019",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2017-16019",
    "summary": "GitBook is a command line tool (and Node.js library) for building beautiful books using GitHub/Git and Markdown (or AsciiDoc). Stored Cross-Site-Scripting (XSS) is possible in GitBook before 3.2.2 by including code outside of backticks in any ebook. This code will be executed on the online reader.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2017-16019",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2017-16019",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2017-16019",
        "GHSA-5h5r-23r4-m87h"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/gitbookio/gitbook",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "ad425b9772c73df297cfe9c024e7dd99e9bc4c75"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gitbook:gitbook:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "3.2.2"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "2.6.7",
            "3.1.1",
            "3.2.1",
            "3.2.0",
            "3.2.0-pre.1",
            "3.2.0-pre.0",
            "3.1.0",
            "3.0.3",
            "3.0.2",
            "3.0.1",
            "3.0.0",
            "3.0.0-pre.15",
            "3.0.0-pre.14",
            "3.0.0-pre.13",
            "3.0.0-pre.12",
            "3.0.0-pre.11",
            "3.0.0-pre.10",
            "3.0.0-pre.9",
            "3.0.0-pre.8",
            "3.0.0-pre.7",
            "3.0.0-pre.6",
            "3.0.0-pre.5",
            "3.0.0-pre.4",
            "3.0.0-pre.3",
            "3.0.0-pre.2",
            "3.0.0-pre.1",
            "2.6.6",
            "2.6.5",
            "2.6.4",
            "2.6.3",
            "2.6.2",
            "2.6.1",
            "2.6.0",
            "2.5.2",
            "2.5.1",
            "2.5.0",
            "2.5.0-beta.7",
            "2.5.0-beta.6",
            "2.5.0-beta.5",
            "2.5.0-beta.4",
            "2.5.0-beta.3",
            "2.5.0-beta.2",
            "2.5.0-beta.1",
            "2.4.3",
            "2.4.2",
            "2.4.1",
            "2.4.0",
            "2.3.3",
            "2.3.2",
            "2.3.1",
            "2.3.0",
            "2.2.0",
            "2.1.0",
            "2.0.4",
            "2.0.3",
            "2.0.2",
            "2.0.1",
            "2.0.0",
            "2.0.0-beta.5",
            "2.0.0-beta.4",
            "2.0.0-beta.3",
            "2.0.0-beta.2",
            "2.0.0-beta.1",
            "1.5.0",
            "1.4.2",
            "1.4.1",
            "1.4.0",
            "1.3.4",
            "1.3.3",
            "1.3.2",
            "1.3.1",
            "1.3.0",
            "1.2.0",
            "1.1.1",
            "1.1.0",
            "1.0.3",
            "1.0.2",
            "1.0.1",
            "1.0.0",
            "0.7.1",
            "0.7.0",
            "0.6.3",
            "0.6.2",
            "0.6.1",
            "0.6.0",
            "0.5.6",
            "0.5.5",
            "0.5.4",
            "0.5.3",
            "0.5.2",
            "0.5.1",
            "0.5.0",
            "0.4.8",
            "0.4.7",
            "0.4.6",
            "0.4.5",
            "0.4.4",
            "0.4.3",
            "0.4.2",
            "0.4.1",
            "0.4.0",
            "0.3.2",
            "0.3.1",
            "0.2.4",
            "0.2.3",
            "0.2.2",
            "0.2.1",
            "0.2.0",
            "0.1.2",
            "0.1.0",
            "0.0.4",
            "0.0.3",
            "0.0.2",
            "0.0.1"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-16019.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:48:19.293821327Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/159",
        "https://github.com/GitbookIO/gitbook/issues/1609"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2017-16019",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 380281,
  "published_at": "2018-06-04T19:29:01.193+00:00"
}