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Reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) In activesupport

Description

activesupport Cross-site Scripting vulnerability Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/output_safety.rb in Ruby on Rails before 2.3.16, 3.0.x before , 3.1.x before 3.1.8, and 3.2.x before 3.2.8 might allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving a ' (quote) character.

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

Ecosystem
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Affected version
Patched versions

Aliases

1. CVE-2012-34642. NVD-2012-34643. OSV-2012-34644. OSV-DEBIAN-2012-34645. GHSA-h835-75hw-pj896. GCVE-2012-34647. SECURITY-TRACKER-CVE-2012-3464

References

1. https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/72152. https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/28f2c6f4037081da0a82104a3f473165ed4ed2ce3. https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/780a718723cf87b49cfe204d355948c4e0932d234. https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/d0c9759d3aeb6327d68dd6c0de0fe2fed4e3c8705. https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/d549df7133f2b0bad8112890d478c33e990e12bc6. https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/activesupport/CVE-2012-3464.yml7. https://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/8f1bbe1cef8c6caf?dmode=source&output=gplain8. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0154.html9. http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2012/8/9/ann-rails-3-2-8-has-been-released

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