PT-2015-6105 · Ruby · Ruby On Rails

Francois Chagnon · Published 2015-07-26 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2015-3226

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 4.1.10 Ruby on Rails versions 4.2.x through 4.2.1

Description A cross-site scripting (XSS) issue in the json/encoding.rb file of Active Support in Ruby on Rails allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted Hash that is mishandled during JSON encoding. This enables attackers to execute malicious code on the victim's browser.

Recommendations For Ruby on Rails versions 3.x through 4.1.10, update to version 4.1.11 or later. For Ruby on Rails versions 4.2.x through 4.2.1, update to version 4.2.2 or later.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2015-3226

DSA-3464-1

GHSA-VXVP-4XWC-JPP6

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10574-1

SUSE-SU-2016:0082-1

Affected Products

Ruby On Rails

References · 25

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-3226 · Security Note
• http://debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3464 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3464-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-3226 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-vxvp-4xwc-jpp6 · Vendor Advisory
• https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=rubyonrails-security/7VlB_pck3hU/3QZrGIaQW6cJ · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10574-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2015-3226 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-3226 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-3226 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-3226 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2015-3226 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:0082-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/rails/rails · Note
• https://groups.google.com/g/rubyonrails-core/c/qBUqVlXERag/m/kuH3wQk1kxUJ · Note