MEDIUM

GHSA-w37c-q653-qg95

actionpack Cross-site Scripting vulnerability

Quick fix

GHSA-w37c-q653-qg95 — actionpack: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

bundle update actionpack

Details

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the simple_format helper in `actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/text_helper.rb` in Ruby on Rails 4.x before 4.0.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted HTML attribute.

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Affected packages

RubyGems/actionpack

Introduced in: 4.0.0Fixed in: 4.0.2

Fixbundle update actionpack

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-6416[ADVISORY]
https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/4b4f5847f64f81c961625e647711ef9f6ad1a454[WEB]
https://github.com/rails/rails[PACKAGE]
https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/actionpack/CVE-2013-6416.yml[WEB]
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ruby-security-ann/5ZI1-H5OoIM[WEB]
https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=ruby-security-ann/5ZI1-H5OoIM/ZNq4FoR2GnIJ[WEB]
https://web.archive.org/web/20200228165109/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64071[WEB]
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2013/12/3/Rails_3_2_16_and_4_0_2_have_been_released[WEB]