Vulnerability · Published Dec 22, 2023 · Assigned by GitHub_M

CVE-2023-50725Resque vulnerable to reflected XSS in resque-web failed and queues lists

Medium 6.3

In plain English

A medium-severity cross-site scripting in resque from resque. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.5% (higher than 45% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.3Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.5%top 55.3% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Resque is a Redis-backed Ruby library for creating background jobs, placing them on multiple queues, and processing them later. The following paths in resque-web have been found to be vulnerable to reflected XSS: "/failed/?class=<script>alert(document.cookie)</script>" and "/queues/><img src=a onerror=alert(document.cookie)>". This issue has been patched in version 2.2.1.

Affected packages & fixed versions

Ecosystem	Package	Fixed in	Advisory
RubyGems	resque	2.2.1	GHSA-gc3j-vvwf-4rp8

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
resque	resque	< 2.2.1

Weakness: CWE-79 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N

References

https://github.com/resque/resque/security/advisories/GHSA-gc3j-vvwf-4rp8 x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/resque/resque/pull/1790 x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/resque/resque/commit/ee99d2ed6cc75d9d384483b70c2d96d312115f07 x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/resque/CVE-2023-50725.yml x_refsource_MISC