Hostname spoofing via backslashes in URL

Description

If using affected versions to determine a URL’s hostname, the hostname can be spoofed by using a backslash (\) character followed by an at (@) character. If the hostname is used in security decisions, the decision may be incorrect.

Recommendation

Update the urijs package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): < 1.19.4
• Patched version(s): 1.19.4

References

• GHSA-3329-pjwv-fjpg
• www.npmjs.com
• CVE-2020-26291
• CWE-20
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A3
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• seajs Cross-site Scripting vulnerability - CVE-2024-51091
• Cross-site scripting in bootstrap-select - CVE-2019-20921
• XSS vulnerability that affects bootstrap - CVE-2018-20676
• Server-Side Template Injection in formio - CVE-2020-28246

Tags:

npm

urijs