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SCA: security update for backbone (GHSA-j6p2-cx3w-6jcp)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 422346

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - backbone is a module that adds in structure to a JavaScript heavy application through key-value pairs and
 custom events connecting to your RESTful API through JSON There exists a potential Cross Site Scripting
 vulnerability in the `Model#Escape` function of backbone 0.3.3 and earlier, if a user is able to supply
 input. This is due to the regex that's replacing things to miss the conversion of things such as `<` to
 `<`. (CVE-2016-10537)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j6p2-cx3w-6jcp

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 422346

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/28/2025

Updated: 1/27/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.5

Temporal Score: 2.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-10537

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/18/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/5/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-10537

cwe: CWE-79