GHSA-v3rr-cph9-2g2q

rack-ssl Cross-site Scripting vulnerability

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2014-2538

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
RubyGems	rack-ssl	< 1.4.0	1.4.0

Details

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

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in `lib/rack/ssl.rb` in the rack-ssl gem before 1.4.0 for Ruby allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a URI, which might not be properly handled by third-party adapters such as JRuby-Rack.

References

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

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-2538 advisory
https://github.com/josh/rack-ssl/commit/9d7d7300b907e496db68d89d07fbc2e0df0b487b web
https://github.com/josh/rack-ssl package
https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rack-ssl/CVE-2014-2538.yml web
https://web.archive.org/web/20140524002455/http://secunia.com/advisories/57466 web
https://web.archive.org/web/20200228185649/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66314 web
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-04/msg00032.html web
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/19/20 web