PT-2013-5042 · Ruby+1 · I18N Gem+1

Published 2013-12-07 · Updated 2023-02-13 · CVE-2013-4492

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 i18n gem versions prior to 0.6.6

Description The issue is related to a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the exceptions.rb file of the i18n gem for Ruby. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted I18n::MissingTranslationData.new call.

Recommendations For versions prior to 0.6.6, update to version 0.6.6 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the use of the I18n::MissingTranslationData.new call to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2013-4492

DSA-2830-1

GHSA-R5HC-9XX5-97RW

MGASA-2014-0017

RHSA-2017:0320

RHSA-2018:0380

SUSE-SU-2014_0458-1

Affected Products

Suse

I18N Gem

References · 38

• 🔥 https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/i18n/CVE-2013-4492.yml · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2013-4492 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4492 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2013-4492 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00093.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-4492 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2830 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2014-0017 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-4492 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-4492 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2013-4492 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-4492 · Security Note
• http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2013/12/3/Rails_3_2_16_and_4_0_2_have_been_released · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0017.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-r5hc-9xx5-97rw · Vendor Advisory