GHSA-w37c-q653-qg95

actionpack Cross-site Scripting vulnerability

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2013-6416

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
RubyGems	actionpack	>= 4.0.0, < 4.0.2	4.0.2

Details

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

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

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

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