PT-2020-14846 · Ruby · Chartkick

Ankane · Published 2020-08-05 · Updated 2020-08-12 · CVE-2020-16254

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.1

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Chartkick gem versions prior to 3.4

Description The issue allows for Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Injection without attribute, which can potentially lead to malicious styling or other security issues.

Recommendations For versions prior to 3.4, update to version 3.4 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

Special Elements Injection

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-74

Related Identifiers

CVE-2020-16254

GHSA-3J95-FJV2-3M4P

Affected Products

Chartkick

References · 7

• 🔥 https://github.com/ankane/chartkick/issues/546 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/chartkick/CVE-2020-16254.yml · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-3j95-fjv2-3m4p · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-16254 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-16254 · Security Note
• https://github.com/ankane/chartkick · Note
• https://github.com/ankane/chartkick/commit/ba67ab5e603de4d94676790fdac425f8199f1c4f · Note