MEDIUM
GHSA-xxr8-833v-c7wc
Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in i18n translations helper method
Quick fix
GHSA-xxr8-833v-c7wc — actionpack: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.
bundle update actionpackDetails
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the i18n translations helper method in Ruby on Rails 3.0.x before 3.0.11 and 3.1.x before 3.1.2, and the rails_xss plugin in Ruby on Rails 2.3.x, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors related to a translations string whose name ends with an "html" substring.
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Affected packages
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-4319[ADVISORY]
- https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/2d5b105d4bcb652550dda8b5613376d1b8beb70c[WEB]
- https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/ba2d85012088fd0db0fab98b2e512c77c83cbade[WEB]
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/71364[WEB]
- https://github.com/rails/rails[PACKAGE]
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/actionpack/CVE-2011-4319.yml[WEB]
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rubyonrails-security/K2HXD7c8fMU[WEB]
- https://web.archive.org/web/20200228155840/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/50722[WEB]
- https://web.archive.org/web/20210307005941/http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026342[WEB]
- http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/browse_thread/thread/2b61d70fb73c7cc5?pli=1[WEB]
- http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/c65c24fbc4b6dd82?dmode=source&output=gplain[WEB]
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/18/8[WEB]
- http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/11/18/rails-3-0-11-has-been-released[WEB]
- http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/11/18/rails-3-1-2-has-been-released[WEB]