{
"id": "GHSA-j6p2-cx3w-6jcp",
"aliases": [
"CVE-2016-10537"
],
"details": "Affected versions of `backbone` are vulnerable to cross-site scripting when users are allowed to supply input to the `Model#Escape` function, and the output is then written to the DOM. \n\nThe vulnerability occurs as a result of the regular expression used to encode metacharacters failing to take HTML Entities such as `<` into account.\n\n\n## Recommendation\n\nUpdate to version 0.5.0 or later.",
"summary": "Cross-Site Scripting in backbone",
"affected": [
{
"ranges": [
{
"type": "ECOSYSTEM",
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0.3.3"
},
{
"fixed": "0.5.0"
}
]
}
],
"package": {
"name": "backbone",
"ecosystem": "npm"
}
}
],
"modified": "2026-01-16T22:08:33Z",
"severity": [
{
"type": "CVSS_V3",
"score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"
}
],
"published": "2019-02-18T23:39:55Z",
"references": [
{
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10537",
"type": "ADVISORY"
},
{
"url": "https://github.com/jashkenas/backbone/commit/0cdc525961d3fa98e810ffae6bcc8e3838e36d93",
"type": "WEB"
},
{
"url": "https://github.com/jashkenas/backbone/commit/7ae0384120c2552e1c426cda7fb02fdce6ef1076",
"type": "WEB"
},
{
"url": "https://backbonejs.org/#changelog",
"type": "WEB"
},
{
"url": "https://github.com/jashkenas/backbone",
"type": "PACKAGE"
},
{
"url": "https://github.com/jashkenas/backbone/blame/0cdc525961d3fa98e810ffae6bcc8e3838e36d93/backbone.js",
"type": "WEB"
},
{
"url": "https://github.com/jashkenas/backbone/compare/0.3.3...0.5.0#diff-0d56d0d310de7ff18b3cef9c2f8f75dcL1008",
"type": "WEB"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-79"
],
"severity": "MODERATE",
"github_reviewed": true,
"nvd_published_at": null,
"github_reviewed_at": "2020-06-16T21:42:17Z"
}
}