CVE-2012-6708

Name	CVE-2012-6708
Description	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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
jquery (PTS)	jessie, jessie (lts)	1.7.2+dfsg-3.2+deb8u7	vulnerable
	stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch	3.1.1-2+deb9u2	fixed
	buster	3.3.1~dfsg-3+deb10u1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
jquery	source	(unstable)	1.11.3+dfsg-1

Notes

[jessie] - jquery <ignored> (Too intrusive to backport)
[wheezy] - jquery <ignored> (Too invasive to fix)
https://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/11290
https://github.com/jquery/jquery/commit/05531fc4080ae24070930d15ae0cea7ae056457d
https://snyk.io/vuln/npm:jquery:20120206
1.9 release introduced backwards incompatible changes to fix this, so may be too invasive to fix