CVE-2017-16792

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-11-13 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

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.

Affected products

Geminabox Project Geminabox: before 0.13.10 — fixed in 0.13.10

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Geminabox Project Geminabox 0.13.10. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://github.com/geminabox/geminabox/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
https://github.com/geminabox/geminabox/commit/f8429a9e364658459add170e4ebc7a5d3b4759e7
https://rubygems.org/gems/geminabox/versions/0.13.10
https://github.com/geminabox/geminabox/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
https://github.com/geminabox/geminabox/commit/f8429a9e364658459add170e4ebc7a5d3b4759e7
https://rubygems.org/gems/geminabox/versions/0.13.10

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