dojox is vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting in all versions before version 1.16.1, 1.15.2, 1.14.5, 1.13.6, 1.12.7 and 1.11.9. This is due to dojox.xmpp.util.xmlEncode only encoding the first occurrence of each character, not all of them.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - dojox is vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting in all versions before version 1.16.1, 1.15.2, 1.14.5, 1.13.6,     1.12.7 and 1.11.9. This is due to dojox.xmpp.util.xmlEncode only encoding the first occurrence of each     character, not all of them. (CVE-2019-10785)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7569-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that Dojo did not correctly handle DataGrids. An attacker could possibly use this issue     to execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

    (CVE-2018-15494)

    It was discovered that Dojo was vulnerable to prototype pollution. An attacker could possibly use this     issue to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-23450)

    Jonathan Leitschuh discovered that Dojo did not correctly sanitize certain inputs. An attacker could     possibly use this issue to execute a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack. This issue only affected Ubuntu     16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

    (CVE-2019-10785, CVE-2020-4051)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

dojox was vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting. This was due to dojox.xmpp.util.xmlEncode only encoding the first occurrence of each character, not all of them.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 1.10.2+dfsg-1+deb8u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your dojo packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
252900	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2019-10785	Nessus	Misc.	medium
240163	Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : Dojo vulnerabilities (USN-7569-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
134178	Debian DLA-2127-1 : dojo security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium

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CVE-2019-10785

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