CVE-2013-4491

Ruby on Rails 3.x < 3.2.16 and 4.x < 4.0.2 - Cross-Site Scripting via i18n Fallback String

Title source: llm

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/translation_helper.rb in the internationalization component in Ruby on Rails 3.x before 3.2.16 and 4.x before 4.0.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted string that triggers generation of a fallback string by the i18n gem.

References (14)

Core 14

Core References

Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=ruby-security-ann/pLrh6DUw998/bLFEyIO4k_EJ

Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0008.html

Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00081.html

Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia

http://secunia.com/advisories/57836

Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-01/msg00003.html

Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00082.html

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64076

Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00079.html

Various Sources x_refsource_confirm

http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2013/12/3/Rails_3_2_16_and_4_0_2_have_been_released/

Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1863.html

Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1794.html

Various Sources x_refsource_confirm

http://www.getchef.com/blog/2014/04/09/enterprise-chef-11-1-3-release/

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian

http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2888

Various Sources x_refsource_confirm

https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2013-4491

Scores

EPSS 0.0071

EPSS Percentile 72.5%

Details

CWE

CWE-79

Status published

Products (22)

rubygems/actionpack 3.0.0 - 3.2.16RubyGems

rubyonrails/rails 4.0.0 (4 CPE variants)

rubyonrails/rails 4.0.1 rc1

rubyonrails/rails 3.0.0 (7 CPE variants)

rubyonrails/rails 3.0.1 (2 CPE variants)

rubyonrails/rails 3.0.2 (2 CPE variants)

rubyonrails/rails 3.0.3

rubyonrails/rails 3.0.4 rc1

rubyonrails/rails 3.0.5 (2 CPE variants)

rubyonrails/rails 3.0.6 (3 CPE variants)

... and 12 more

Published Dec 07, 2013

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026