GHSA-w37c-q653-qg95

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    GHSA-w37c-q653-qg95

    Published: 24 Oct 2017Last Modified: 3 Dec 2024
    Aliases:
    CVE-2013-6416

    Summary: actionpack Cross-site Scripting vulnerability

    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.

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

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: actionpack

    Purl: pkg:gem/actionpack

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 4.0.0
    Fixed -4.0.2

    Affected versions

    4.0.0
    4.0.1
    4.0.1.rc1
    4.0.1.rc2
    4.0.1.rc3
    4.0.1.rc4

    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