MEDIUM

GHSA-qv8p-v9qw-wc7g

activesupport Cross-site Scripting vulnerability

Quick fix

GHSA-qv8p-v9qw-wc7g — activesupport: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

bundle update activesupport

Details

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Ruby on Rails 3.0.x before 3.0.12, 3.1.x before 3.1.4, and 3.2.x before 3.2.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving a SafeBuffer object that is manipulated through certain methods.

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Affected packages

RubyGems/activesupport

Introduced in: 3.0.0Fixed in: 3.0.12

Fixbundle update activesupport

RubyGems/activesupport

Introduced in: 3.1.0Fixed in: 3.1.4

Fixbundle update activesupport

RubyGems/activesupport

Introduced in: 3.2.0Fixed in: 3.2.2

Fixbundle update activesupport

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-1098[ADVISORY]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=799275[WEB]
http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/1c2e01a5e42722c9?dmode=source&output=gplain[WEB]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-March/075675.html[WEB]
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2012/3/1/ann-rails-3-0-12-has-been-released[WEB]
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/02/6[WEB]
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/03/1[WEB]