MEDIUM
GHSA-75w6-p6mg-vh8j
Rails actionpack gem vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting
Quick fix
GHSA-75w6-p6mg-vh8j — actionpack: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.
bundle update actionpackDetails
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the `mail_to` helper in Ruby on Rails before 2.3.11, and 3.x before 3.0.4, when javascript encoding is used, allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted (1) name or (2) email value.
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Affected packages
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-0446[ADVISORY]
- https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/abe97736b8316f1b714cac56c115c0779aa73217[WEB]
- https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/e3dd2107c57a8efaaea5d61cf8da65f7444760b2[WEB]
- https://github.com/rails/rails[PACKAGE]
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/actionpack/CVE-2011-0446.yml[WEB]
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/actionview/CVE-2011-0446.yml[WEB]
- https://groups.google.com/g/rubyonrails-security/c/8CpI7egxX4E/m/SmtqtyOKWzYJ[WEB]
- https://web.archive.org/web/20111225083933/http://secunia.com/advisories/43274[WEB]
- https://web.archive.org/web/20111225083933/http://secunia.com/advisories/43666[WEB]
- https://web.archive.org/web/20120527023027/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46291[WEB]
- https://web.archive.org/web/20200812054342/http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025064[WEB]
- http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/365b8a23b76a6b4a?dmode=source&output=gplain[WEB]
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/057650.html[WEB]
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055074.html[WEB]
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055088.html[WEB]
- http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2247[WEB]