USN-7246-1: jQuery vulnerabilities

Publication date

30 January 2025

Overview

Several security issues were fixed in jquery.

Releases

20.04 LTS

Packages

It was discovered that jQuery incorrectly handled parsing untrusted HTML. A
remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release	Package Version
20.04 focal	libjs-jquery – 3.3.1~dfsg-3ubuntu0.1

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