PT-2013-5041 · Ruby+1 · Ruby On Rails+1

Peter Mclarnan · Published 2013-12-07 · Updated 2019-08-08 · CVE-2013-4491

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Ruby on Rails versions 3.x through 3.2.15 Ruby on Rails versions 4.x through 4.0.1

Description A cross-site scripting (XSS) issue exists in the internationalization component, allowing remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted string. This string triggers the generation of a fallback string by the i18n gem, which is used in the actionpack/lib/action view/helpers/translation helper.rb file.

Recommendations For Ruby on Rails versions 3.x through 3.2.15, update to version 3.2.16 or later. For Ruby on Rails versions 4.x through 4.0.1, update to version 4.0.2 or later.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2013-4491

DSA-2888-1

GHSA-699M-MCJM-9CW8

RHSA-2013:1794

RHSA-2014:0008

SUSE-SU-2014_0153-1

Affected Products

Ruby On Rails

Suse

References · 37

• 🔥 https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/actionpack/CVE-2013-4491.yml · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2013-4491 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00079.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1863.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-01/msg00003.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4491 · Security Note
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0008.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6414 · Security Note
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1794.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-4491 · Security Note
• http://debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2888 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-4491 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-699m-mcjm-9cw8 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00081.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-4491 · Vendor Advisory