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Reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) In actionpack

Description

actionpack Cross-site Scripting vulnerability 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.

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

Ecosystem
Component
Affected version
Patched versions

Aliases

1. CVE-2013-18572. NVD-2013-18573. OSV-2013-18574. OSV-DEBIAN-2013-18575. GCVE-2013-18576. SECURITY-TRACKER-CVE-2013-1857

References

1. https://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/78b9817a5943f6d6?dmode=source&output=gplain2. https://web.archive.org/web/20130609174600/http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Jun/msg00000.html3. https://web.archive.org/web/20131109010518/http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Oct/msg00006.html4. http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-04/msg00072.html5. http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-04/msg00073.html6. http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-01/msg00013.html7. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0698.html8. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1863.html9. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT578410. http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2013/3/18/SEC-ANN-Rails-3-2-13-3-1-12-and-2-3-18-have-been-released

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