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Medium 1 exploited CVE ALSA-2025:1314 1 CVE

Moderate: doxygen security update

Published Feb 11, 2025 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

Summary

Doxygen can generate an online class browser (in HTML) and/or a reference manual (in LaTeX) from a set of documented source files. The documentation is extracted directly from the sources. Doxygen can also be configured to extract the code structure from undocumented source files.

Security Fix(es):

* jquery: Untrusted code execution via <option> tag in HTML passed to DOM manipulation methods (CVE-2020-11023)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Fixed packages 3

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 8 doxygen 1:1.8.14-13.el8_10
AlmaLinux · 8 doxygen-doxywizard 1:1.8.14-13.el8_10
AlmaLinux · 8 doxygen-latex 1:1.8.14-13.el8_10

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Medium 6.9
    CVE-2020-11023 Exploited Public exploit EPSS 85%

    Potential XSS vulnerability in jQuery

    In jQuery versions greater than or equal to 1.0.3 and before 3.5.0, passing HTML containing <option> elements from untrusted sources - even after sanitizing it - to one of jQuery's DOM manipulation methods (i.e. .html(), .append(), and others) may execute unt…

    KEV Jan 23, 2025

References

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-11023
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1850004
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2025-1314.html