Cross-Site Scripting in serialize-to-js

Description

Versions of serialize-to-js prior to 3.0.1 are vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS). The package fails to sanitize serialized regular expressions. This vulnerability does not affect Node.js applications.

Recommendation

Update the serialize-to-js package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): < 3.0.1
• Patched version(s): 3.0.1

References

• GHSA-3fjq-93xj-3f3f
• www.npmjs.com
• CVE-2019-16772
• CWE-79
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A3
• OWASP 2021-A6

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• Cross-site Scripting in node-red-dashboard - CVE-2019-10756
• Cross-site Scripting in pandao - CVE-2019-14653

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Tags:

npm

serialize-to-js