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Reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) In rdoc

Description

RDoc contains XSS vulnerability 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.

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

Ecosystem
Package
Affected version
Patched versions

Aliases

1. CVE-2013-02562. NVD-2013-02563. OSV-2013-02564. GHSA-v2r9-c84j-v7xm5. GCVE-2013-0256

References

1. https://github.com/rdoc/rdoc/commit/ffa87887ee0517793df7541629a470e331f9fe602. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=9078203. https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rdoc/CVE-2013-0256.yml4. https://web.archive.org/web/20130402173730/http://blog.segment7.net:80/2013/02/06/rdoc-xss-vulnerability-cve-2013-0256-releases-3-9-5-3-12-1-4-0-0-rc-25. http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00015.html6. http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-02/msg00048.html7. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0686.html8. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0701.html9. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0728.html10. http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/02/06/rdoc-xss-cve-2013-025611. http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1733-1

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