CVE-2016-10537
backbone is a module that adds in structure to a JavaScript heavy application through key-value pairs and custom events connecting to your…
- 5.4MediumCVSS base score
- 0.66%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 48% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
backbone is a module that adds in structure to a JavaScript heavy application through key-value pairs and custom events connecting to your RESTful API through JSON There exists a potential Cross Site Scripting vulnerability in the `Model#Escape` function of backbone 0.3.3 and earlier, if a user is able to supply input. This is due to the regex that's replacing things to miss the conversion of things such as `<` to `<`.
Timeline
ID reserved
By hackerone
- 7 months later
· 7 months later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium5.4 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.66% · top 48% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.4.
Affected products
HackerOne · backbone node module
- affected <= 0.3.3
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- npmbackboneGHSA-j6p2-cx3w-6jcp (opens in a new tab)
References
2
- https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/108 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/jashkenas/backbone/compare/0.3.3...0.5.0#diff-0d56d0d310de7ff18b3cef9c2f8f75dcL1008 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2019-0308 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-j6p2-cx3w-6jcp (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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