CVE catalog
CVE-2012-6708
ALPINE-CVE-2012-6708
- Severity
- Medium · CVSS 6.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N - Published
- Updated
- Source
- [NVD] · [CVE record]
- EPSS
- 8.63% · Oct 27, 2026
jQuery before 1.9.0 is vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) attacks. The jQuery(strInput) function does not differentiate selectors from HTML in a reliable fashion. In vulnerable versions, jQuery determined whether the input was HTML by looking for the '<' character anywhere in the string, giving attackers more flexibility when attempting to construct a malicious payload. In fixed versions, jQuery only deems the input to be HTML if it explicitly starts with the '<' character, limiting exploitability only to attackers who can control the beginning of a string, which is far less common.
Vulnerable and fixed packages
Distribution-reported package versions and fixes. These do not depend on matching against the OpenFactory package catalog.
| Distribution | Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alpine | ruby | 3.10 | 2.5.6-r0 | fixed |
| Ubuntu | jquery | pro | 3.1.1-2 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | jquery | pro | 3.2.1-1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | jquery | pro | 3.2.1-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 | fixed |
| Opensuse | ruby2.5 | leap 15.1 | 2.5.7-lp151.4.6.1 | fixed |
| Ubuntu | jquery | pro | 1.7.2+dfsg-2ubuntu1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | jquery | pro | 1.7.2+dfsg-2ubuntu1+esm1 | fixed |
| Suse | ruby2.5 | linux enterprise module for basesystem 15 sp1 | 2.5.7-4.8.1 | fixed |
| Suse | ruby2.5 | linux enterprise high performance computing 15-espos | 2.5.7-4.8.1 | fixed |
| Suse | ruby2.5 | linux enterprise high performance computing 15-ltss | 2.5.7-4.8.1 | fixed |
| Suse | ruby2.5 | linux enterprise server 15-ltss | 2.5.7-4.8.1 | fixed |
| Suse | ruby2.5 | linux enterprise server for sap applications 15 | 2.5.7-4.8.1 | fixed |
Fixed-version evidence
| Distribution | Package | Type | Release | Fixed version | Urgency | Origin | Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alpine | ruby | apk | 3.10 | 2.5.6-r0 | Not reported | ALPINE-CVE-2012-6708 | Not reported |
| Ubuntu | jquery | deb | pro | 3.2.1-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 | Not reported | USN-7622-1 | Not reported |
| Opensuse | ruby2.5 | rpm | leap 15.1 | 2.5.7-lp151.4.6.1 | Not reported | OPENSUSE-SU-2020:0395-1 | Not reported |
| Ubuntu | jquery | deb | pro | 1.7.2+dfsg-2ubuntu1+esm1 | Not reported | UBUNTU-CVE-2012-6708 | Not reported |
| Suse | ruby2.5 | rpm | linux enterprise module for basesystem 15 sp1 | 2.5.7-4.8.1 | Not reported | SUSE-SU-2020:0737-1 | Not reported |
| Suse | ruby2.5 | rpm | linux enterprise high performance computing 15-espos | 2.5.7-4.8.1 | Not reported | SUSE-SU-2020:0737-1 | Not reported |
| Suse | ruby2.5 | rpm | linux enterprise high performance computing 15-ltss | 2.5.7-4.8.1 | Not reported | SUSE-SU-2020:0737-1 | Not reported |
| Suse | ruby2.5 | rpm | linux enterprise server 15-ltss | 2.5.7-4.8.1 | Not reported | SUSE-SU-2020:0737-1 | Not reported |
| Suse | ruby2.5 | rpm | linux enterprise server for sap applications 15 | 2.5.7-4.8.1 | Not reported | SUSE-SU-2020:0737-1 | Not reported |
OpenFactory catalog packages
No matching packages in this catalog.
Observed:
References
- [https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf/suse-su-2020_0737-1.json]
- [https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ALPINE-CVE-2012-6708]
- [https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2020:0737-1]
- [https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2012-6708]
- [https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-7622-1]
- [https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2020:0395-1]
- [https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2012/cve-2012-6708.json]
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