CVE-2013-4491

Rails < 4.0.1 - XSS

Title source: rule

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)

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

[Vendor Advisory] http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1794.html

[Vendor Advisory] http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0008.html

[Vendor Advisory] http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1863.html

[Mailing List] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00079.html

[Third Party Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/57836

[Various Sources] http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2013/12/3/Rails_3_2_16_and_4_0_2_have_been_released/

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

[Various Sources] https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2013-4491

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64076

[Third Party Advisory] http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2888

[Mailing List] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00081.html

[Mailing List] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00082.html

[Mailing List] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-01/msg00003.html

Scores

EPSS 0.0071

EPSS Percentile 72.1%

Details

CWE

CWE-79

Status published

Products (50)

rubyonrails/rails < 4.0.1

rubyonrails/rails

rubyonrails/rails

rubyonrails/rails

rubyonrails/rails

rubyonrails/rails

rubyonrails/rails

rubyonrails/rails

rubyonrails/rails

rubyonrails/rails

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Published Dec 07, 2013

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026