What is CVE-2023-50727?

CVE-2023-50727 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Resque, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.3/10. Published 2023-12-22.

How severe is CVE-2023-50727?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.3 out of 10.

XSS in Resque

CVE-2023-50727

Resque is a Redis-backed Ruby library for creating background jobs, placing them on multiple queues, and processing them later. Reflected XSS issue occurs when /queues is appended with /"><svg%20onload=alert(domain)>. This issue has been patched in version 2.6.0.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.005 (40.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N.

Affected products

Resque — versions < 2.6.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

security-advisories@github.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
security-advisories@github.com (Patch, x_refsource_MISC)
security-advisories@github.com (Patch, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-50727?: CVE-2023-50727 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Resque, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.3/10. Published 2023-12-22.
How severe is CVE-2023-50727?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.3 out of 10.