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Advisory details: ruby_advisory_db / gems/actionpack/CVE-2013-1857
Advisory ID ruby_advisory_db/gems/actionpack/CVE-2013-1857
Aliases CVE-2013-1857
GHSA-j838-vfpq-fmf2
OSV-91454
Summary CVE-2013-1857 rubygem-actionpack: sanitize_protocol: XSS Vulnerability in the helper of Ruby on Rails '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.'
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 0.0
Risk
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Introduced and Fixed Package Commit Patches Package Commit Patches Details
Weaknesses (0)
There are no known CWE.
System Score Found at
cvssv2 4.3
Reference id Reference type URL
CVE-2013-1857 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-1857

No exploits are available.

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Patch URL
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There are no known vectors.

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