HTML Injection Affecting cucumber package, versions <4.0.0
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RUBY-CUCUMBER-20442
- published 9 Nov 2017
- disclosed 21 Nov 2016
- credit Alexey Bezhan
How to fix?
Upgrade cucumber to version 4.0.0 or higher.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to HTML Injection. The HTML formatter appends any scenario output to the HTML without escaping HTML tags in the messages. This way, any output from the steps gets injected into the report page. In the simple case, this won't display the message as expected. When combined with for example capybara and CI environments this opens up the possibility of an XSS attack from the user input on the environment being tested.