MEDIUM
GHSA-v9v4-7jp6-8c73
rails Cross-site Scripting vulnerability
Quick fix
GHSA-v9v4-7jp6-8c73 — actionpack: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.
bundle update actionpackDetails
The cross-site scripting (XSS) prevention feature in Ruby on Rails 2.x before 2.3.12, 3.0.x before 3.0.8, and 3.1.x before 3.1.0.rc2 does not properly handle mutation of safe buffers, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct XSS attacks via crafted strings to an application that uses a problematic string method, as demonstrated by the sub method.
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Affected packages
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-2197[ADVISORY]
- https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/53a2c0baf2b128dd4808eca313256f6f4bb8c4cd[WEB]
- https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/ed3796434af6069ced6a641293cf88eef3b284da[WEB]
- https://gist.github.com/NZKoz/b2ceb626fc2bcdfe497f[WEB]
- https://github.com/rails/rails[PACKAGE]
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/activesupport/CVE-2011-2197.yml[WEB]
- http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/663b600d4471e0d4?dmode=source&output=gplain[WEB]
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062514.html[WEB]
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/062090.html[WEB]
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/09/2[WEB]
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/13/9[WEB]
- http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/6/8/potential-xss-vulnerability-in-ruby-on-rails-applications[WEB]