GHSA-vxvp-4xwc-jpp6

    Dashboard / Vulnerabilities / GHSA-vxvp-4xwc-jpp6

    GHSA-vxvp-4xwc-jpp6

    Published: 24 Oct 2017Last Modified: 4 Nov 2025
    Aliases:
    CVE-2015-3226

    Summary: activesupport Cross-site Scripting vulnerability

    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.

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

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: activesupport

    Purl: pkg:gem/activesupport

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 4.1.0
    Fixed -4.1.11

    Affected versions

    4.1.0
    4.1.1
    4.1.10
    4.1.10.rc1
    4.1.10.rc2
    4.1.10.rc3
    4.1.10.rc4
    4.1.2
    4.1.2.rc1
    4.1.2.rc2
    4.1.2.rc3
    4.1.3
    4.1.4
    4.1.5
    4.1.6
    4.1.6.rc1
    4.1.6.rc2
    4.1.7
    4.1.7.1
    4.1.8
    4.1.9
    4.1.9.rc1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High