Vega is a visualization grammar, a declarative format for creating, saving, and sharing interactive visualization designs. Vega in an npm package. In Vega before version 5.17.3 there is an XSS vulnerability in Vega expressions. Through a specially crafted Vega expression, an attacker could execute arbitrary javascript on a victim’s machine. This is fixed in version 5.17.3
Source: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-26296
Reference (s):
- https://github.com/vega/vega/security/advisories/GHSA-r2qc-w64x-6j54
- URL: https://github.com/vega/vega/security/advisories/GHSA-r2qc-w64x-6j54
- https://github.com/vega/vega/issues/3018
- URL: https://github.com/vega/vega/issues/3018
- https://github.com/vega/vega/pull/3019