Disable legacy JQuery behavior

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The glide.jquery.legacy is used to prevent older prepatched JQuery versions from being used which will introduce unpatched vulnerabilities in the library.

If glide.jquery.legacy is not set to the recommended value of false, then older prepatched JQuery versions are used which introduce unpatched vulnerabilities in the library. When false, integrates the JQuery 1.12.3 and 2.2.3 security patches. The system property is a fail-safe in case any organizations depend on the non-patched versions of angularJS to run their custom implementations.

Ensure the property glide.jquery.legacy is set to false.

More information

Attribute

Description

Configuration name

glide.jquery.legacy

Configuration type

System Properties (/sys_properties_list.do)

Data type

Boolean

Recommended value

false

Default value

false

Fallback value

true

Category

Architecture, design, and threat modeling

Security risk

  • Severity score: 7.1
  • CVSS rating: High
  • Security risk details: This update could potentially lead to security risks arising from attacks on vulnerabilities discovered in outdated JQuery library versions.

Functional impact

None

Dependencies and prerequisites

None

**Parent Topic:**[Architecture, design, and threat modeling](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/brazil/markdown/platform-security/instance-security-hardening-settings/sc-architecture-design-threat-molding.md)
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