Security Advisory

CVE-2019-16772

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2019-12-06 23:25:14
Last updated 2024-08-05 01:24:48
Assigner GitHub_M
State PUBLISHED

Description

The serialize-to-js NPM package before version 3.0.1 is vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS). It does not properly mitigate against unsafe characters in serialized regular expressions. This vulnerability is not affected on Node.js environment since Node.jss implementation of RegExp.prototype.toString() backslash-escapes all forward slashes in regular expressions. If serialized data of regular expression objects are used in an environment other than Node.js, it is affected by this vulnerability.