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CVE-2017-14506

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-09-25 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

geminabox (aka Gem in a Box) before 0.13.6 has XSS, as demonstrated by uploading a gem file that has a crafted gem.homepage value in its .gemspec file.

Affected products

• Geminabox Project Geminabox: through 0.13.5

References

• http://baraktawily.blogspot.co.il/2017/09/gem-in-box-xss-vulenrability-cve-2017.html
• https://github.com/geminabox/geminabox/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
• http://baraktawily.blogspot.co.il/2017/09/gem-in-box-xss-vulenrability-cve-2017.html
• https://github.com/geminabox/geminabox/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

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