MEDIUM

GHSA-vxvp-4xwc-jpp6

activesupport Cross-site Scripting vulnerability

Quick fix

GHSA-vxvp-4xwc-jpp6 — activesupport: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

bundle update activesupport

Details

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in `json/encoding.rb` in Active Support in Ruby on Rails 4.1.x before 4.1.11 and 4.2.x before 4.2.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted Hash that is mishandled during JSON encoding.

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Affected packages

RubyGems/activesupport

Introduced in: 4.1.0Fixed in: 4.1.11

Fixbundle update activesupport

RubyGems/activesupport

Introduced in: 4.2.0Fixed in: 4.2.2

Fixbundle update activesupport

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-3226[ADVISORY]
https://github.com/rails/rails[PACKAGE]
https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=rubyonrails-security/7VlB_pck3hU/3QZrGIaQW6cJ[WEB]
https://groups.google.com/g/rubyonrails-core/c/qBUqVlXERag/m/kuH3wQk1kxUJ[WEB]
https://web.archive.org/web/20200228033946/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75231[WEB]
https://web.archive.org/web/20200517005133/http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033755[WEB]
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/16/17[WEB]
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3464[WEB]