XSS in Rubyonrails Rails
CVE-2013-1857
The sanitize helper in lib/action_controller/vendor/html-scanner/html/sanitizer.rb in the Action Pack component in Ruby on Rails before 2.3.18, 3.0.x and 3.1.x before 3.1.12, and 3.2.x before 3.2.13 does not properly handle encoded : (colon) characters in URLs, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a crafted scheme name, as demonstrated by including a : sequence.
Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.019 (78.5th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 79th percentile — 78.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.019 · newest: 0.019 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Rubyonrails Rails — versions 0.9.1, 0.9.2, 0.9.3
- Rubyonrails Ruby On Rails — versions 0.5.0, 0.5.5, 0.5.6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux — versions 6.0
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Oct/msg00006.html (vendor-advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-01/msg00013.html (vendor-advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-04/msg00073.html (vendor-advisory)
- support.apple.com/kb/HT5784
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0698.html (vendor-advisory)
- lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Jun/msg00000.html (vendor-advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-04/msg00072.html (vendor-advisory)
- groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/78b9817a5943f6d6 (mailing-list)
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1863.html (vendor-advisory)
- weblog.rubyonrails.org/2013/3/18/SEC-ANN-Rails-3-2-13-3-1-12-and-2-3-18-have-be…