MEDIUM

GHSA-699m-mcjm-9cw8

actionpack vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting

Quick fix

GHSA-699m-mcjm-9cw8 — actionpack: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

bundle update actionpack

Details

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in `actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/translation_helper.rb` in the internationalization component in Ruby on Rails 3.x before 3.2.16 and 4.x before 4.0.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted string that triggers generation of a fallback string by the i18n gem.

Are you affected?

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Affected packages

RubyGems/actionpack

Introduced in: 3.0.0Fixed in: 3.2.16

Fixbundle update actionpack

RubyGems/actionpack

Introduced in: 4.0.0Fixed in: 4.0.2

Fixbundle update actionpack

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4491[ADVISORY]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-699m-mcjm-9cw8[ADVISORY]
https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/actionpack/CVE-2013-4491.yml[WEB]
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ruby-security-ann/pLrh6DUw998[WEB]
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1794.html[WEB]
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0008.html[WEB]
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1863.html[WEB]
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2013/12/3/Rails_3_2_16_and_4_0_2_have_been_released[WEB]
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2888[WEB]