Bug 1763594 (CVE-2019-14862)

Summary: CVE-2019-14862 knockout: Cross-site Scripting (XSS) attacks due to not escaping the name attribute.
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Marian Rehak <mrehak>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: akoufoud, alazarot, almorale, anstephe, etirelli, ibek, jstastny, krathod, kverlaen, mnovotny, paradhya, psampaio, rrajasek, rsynek, sdaley
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Description Marian Rehak 2019-10-21 07:21:17 UTC 
This is done by escaping the context of the web application; the web application then delivers that data to its users along with other trusted dynamic content, without validating it.

Upstream issue:

https://github.com/knockout/knockout/issues/1244

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/knockout/knockout/pull/2345
https://github.com/knockout/knockout/commit/7e280b2b8a04cc19176b5171263a5c68bda98efb
Comment 1 Marian Rehak 2019-10-21 07:21:39 UTC 
External References:

https://snyk.io/vuln/npm:knockout:20180213
Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2019-12-03 14:58:44 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Decision Manager

Via RHSA-2019:4069 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4069
Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2019-12-03 15:13:59 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Process Automation

Via RHSA-2019:4071 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4071
Comment 6 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-12-03 19:04:54 UTC 
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-14862