ADVISORIES

• CVE-2021-41184 (NVD)
• GHSA-gpqq-952q-5327
• Vendor Advisory

GEM

jquery-ui-rails

SEVERITY

CVSS v3.x: 6.5 (Medium)

CVSS v2.0: 4.3 (Medium)

PATCHED VERSIONS

• >= 7.0.0

DESCRIPTION

Impact

Accepting the value of the of option of the .position() util from untrusted sources may execute untrusted code. For example, invoking the following code:

$("#element").position( {
  my: "left top", at: "right bottom",
  of: "<img onerror='doEvilThing()' src='/404' />",
  collision: "none"
});

will call the doEvilThing() function.

Patches

The issue is fixed in jQuery UI 1.13.0. Any string value passed to the of option is now treated as a CSS selector.

Workarounds

A workaround is to not accept the value of the of option from untrusted sources.

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory, search for a relevant issue in the jQuery UI repo.

If you don't find an answer, open a new issue."

RELATED

• https://github.com/jquery/jquery-ui/security/advisories/GHSA-gpqq-952q-5327
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-41184
• https://github.com/jquery/jquery-ui/commit/effa323f1505f2ce7a324e4f429fa9032c72f280
• https://blog.jqueryui.com/2021/10/jquery-ui-1-13-0-released/
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20211118-0004/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NXIUUBRVLA4E7G7MMIKCEN75YN7UFERW/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/O74SXYY7RGXREQDQUDQD4BPJ4QQTD2XQ/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SNXA7XRKGINWSUIPIZ6ZBCTV6N3KSHES/
• https://www.drupal.org/sa-core-2022-001
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
• https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2022-09
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HVKIOWSXL2RF2ULNAP7PHESYCFSZIJE3/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SGSY236PYSFYIEBRGDERLA7OSY6D7XL4/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00040.html
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-gpqq-952q-5327
• https://github.com/jquery-ui-rails/jquery-ui-rails/commit/413265e81f790f795239e07e7e25e01429b2f18d