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CVE-2013-0256 (rdoc): CVE-2013-0256 rubygem-rdoc: Cross-site scripting in the documentation created by Darkfish Rdoc HTML generator / template

ADVISORIES

GEM

rdoc

SEVERITY

CVSS v2.0: 4.3 (Medium)

PATCHED VERSIONS

  • ~> 3.9.5
  • ~> 3.12.1
  • >= 4.0

DESCRIPTION

darkfish.js in RDoc 2.3.0 through 3.12 and 4.x before 4.0.0.preview2.1, as used in Ruby, does not properly generate documents, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a crafted URL.