Medium
Security advisory
Stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in "geminabox" (Gem in a Box) before 0.13.10 allows attackers to inject arbitrary web script via the "homepage" value of a ".gemspec" file, related to views/gem.erb and views/index.erb.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2017-16792
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 09:52 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in "geminabox" (Gem in a Box) before 0.13.10 allows attackers to inject arbitrary web script via the "homepage" value of a ".gemspec" file, related to views/gem.erb and views/index.erb.
osv:CVE-2017-16792
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-20T10:48:16.026202847Z",
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"https://github.com/geminabox/geminabox/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md",
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 380207,
"published_at": "2017-11-13T09:29:00.34+00:00"
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