GHSA-r5hc-9xx5-97rw

i18n gem Cross-site Scripting vulnerability

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2013-4492

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
RubyGems	i18n	< 0.6.6	0.6.6

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in exceptions.rb in the i18n gem before 0.6.6 for Ruby allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted I18n::MissingTranslationData.new call.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4492 advisory
https://github.com/ruby-i18n/i18n/commit/92b57b1e4f84adcdcc3a375278f299274be62445 web
https://github.com/svenfuchs/i18n/commit/92b57b1e4f84adcdcc3a375278f299274be62445 web
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2015:1100 web
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0320 web
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0380 web
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-4492 web
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1039435 web
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-r5hc-9xx5-97rw advisory
https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/i18n/CVE-2013-4492.yml web
https://github.com/svenfuchs/i18n package
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ruby-security-ann/pLrh6DUw998 web
https://web.archive.org/web/20201208125214/https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=ruby-security-ann/pLrh6DUw998/bLFEyIO4k_EJ web
https://web.archive.org/web/20210731082547/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64076 web
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00093.html web
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2013/12/3/Rails_3_2_16_and_4_0_2_have_been_released web
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2830 web