What is CVE-2017-16792?

CVE-2017-16792 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Geminabox Project, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2017-11-13.

How severe is CVE-2017-16792?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.

XSS in Geminabox Project

CVE-2017-16792

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.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2017-11-13 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.011 (64.1th percentile), scored 2026-10-07.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 64th percentile — 64.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.011 · newest: 0.011 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Geminabox Project

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

rubygems.org/gems/geminabox/versions/0.13.10 (Product)
github.com/geminabox/geminabox/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md (Third Party Advisory, Release Notes)
github.com/geminabox/geminabox/commit/f8429a9e364658459add170e4ebc7a5d3b4759e7 (Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-16792?: CVE-2017-16792 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Geminabox Project, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2017-11-13.
How severe is CVE-2017-16792?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.