Drupal core - Critical - Remote code execution - SA-CORE-2020-012

A flaw was found in the ArchiveTar package. PEAR ArchiveTar could allow a local authenticated attacker to bypass security restrictions caused by a stream-wrapper attack. An attacker can overwrite arbitrary files on the system using a specially-crafted tar archive.

Impact Passing HTML containing <option> elements from untrusted sources - even after sanitizing them - to one of jQuery's DOM manipulation methods (i.e. .html(), .append(), and others) may execute untrusted code.

Patches This problem is patched in jQuery 3.5.0.

Workarounds To workaround this issue without upgrading, use DOMPurify with its SAFEFORJQUERY option to sanitize the HTML string before passing it to a jQuery method.

References https://blog.jquery.com/2020/04/10/jquery-3-5-0-released/

For more information If you have any questions or comments about this advisory, search for a relevant issue in the jQuery repo. If you don't find an answer, open a new issue.