MEDIUM
GHSA-v5jg-558j-q67c
actionpack Cross-site Scripting vulnerability
Quick fix
GHSA-v5jg-558j-q67c — actionpack: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.
bundle update actionpackDetails
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the `strip_tags` helper in `actionpack/lib/action_controller/vendor/html-scanner/html/node.rb` in Ruby on Rails before 2.3.13, 3.0.x before 3.0.10, and 3.1.x before 3.1.0.rc5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a tag with an invalid name.
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Affected packages
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-2931[ADVISORY]
- https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/586a944ddd4d03e66dea1093306147594748037a[WEB]
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=731436[WEB]
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-v5jg-558j-q67c[ADVISORY]
- https://github.com/rails/rails[PACKAGE]
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/actionpack/CVE-2011-2931.yml[WEB]
- http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/fd41ab62966e0fd1?dmode=source&output=gplain[WEB]
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/065109.html[WEB]
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/065137.html[WEB]
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/065212.html[WEB]
- http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/8/16/ann-rails-3-1-0-rc6[WEB]
- http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2301[WEB]
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/17/1[WEB]
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/19/11[WEB]
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/20/1[WEB]
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/22/13[WEB]
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/22/14[WEB]
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/22/5[WEB]