ADVISORIES

• CVE-2014-0081 (NVD)
• GHSA-m46p-ggm5-5j83
• Vendor Advisory

GEM

rails

SEVERITY

CVSS v2.0: 4.3 (Medium)

PATCHED VERSIONS

• ~> 3.2.17
• ~> 4.0.3
• ~> 4.1.0.beta2
• >= 4.1.0

DESCRIPTION

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in "actionview/lib/action_view/helpers/number_helper.rb" in Ruby on Rails before 3.2.17, 4.0.x before 4.0.3, and 4.1.x before 4.1.0.beta2 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) format, (2) negative_format, or (3) units parameter to the (a) number_to_currency, (b) number_to_percentage, or (c) number_to_human helper.

RELATED

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-0081
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00081.html
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/18/8
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0215.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0306.html
• https://web.archive.org/web/20140911141416/http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029782
• https://web.archive.org/web/20170307202606/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65647
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-m46p-ggm5-5j83
• https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/08d0a11a3f62718d601d39e617c834759cf59bbb