CVE-2013-1857 rubygem-actionpack: sanitize_protocol: XSS Vulnerability in the helper of Ruby on Rails
Published: March 19, 2013
SECURITY IDENTIFIERS
- CVE: CVE-2013-1857 (NVD)
- GHSA: GHSA-j838-vfpq-fmf2
- OSVDB: OSVDB-91454
GEM
FRAMEWORK
SEVERITY
CVSS v2.0: 4.3 (Medium)
PATCHED VERSIONS
~> 2.3.18
~> 3.1.12
>= 3.2.13
DESCRIPTION
'The sanitize helper in lib/action_controller/vendor/html-scanner/html/sanitizer.rb in the Action Pack component in Ruby on Rails before 2.3.18, 3.0.x and 3.1.x before 3.1.12, and 3.2.x before 3.2.13 does not properly handle encoded : (colon) characters in URLs, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a crafted scheme name, as demonstrated by including a : sequence. A cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw was found in Action Pack. A remote attacker could use this flaw to conduct XSS attacks against users of an application using Action Pack.'
