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Re: CVE Request -- Ruby on Rails / rubygem-actionpack -- XSS in the 'translate' helper method
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried () redhat com>
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 09:36:47 -0700
On 11/18/2011 07:52 AM, Jan Lieskovsky wrote:
Hello Kurt, Steve, vendors, a cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw was found in the way the 'translate' helper method of the Ruby on Rails performed HTML escaping of interpolated user input, when interpolation in combination with HTML-safe translations were used. A remote attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary HTML or web script by providing a specially-crafted input to Ruby on Rails application, using the ActionPack module and its 'translate' helper method without explicit (application specific) sanitization of user provided input. References: [1] http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/11/18/rails-3-1-2-has-been-released [2] http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/11/18/rails-3-0-11-has-been-released [3] https://secunia.com/advisories/46877/ [4] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=390915 [5] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=755004 Relevant upstream patches: [6] http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/browse_thread/thread/2b61d70fb73c7cc5 Could you allocate a CVE id for this? Thank you && Regards, Jan. -- Jan iankko Lieskovsky / Red Hat Security Response Team
Please use CVE-2011-4319 for this issue. -- -Kurt Seifried / Red Hat Security Response Team
Current thread:
- CVE Request -- Ruby on Rails / rubygem-actionpack -- XSS in the 'translate' helper method Jan Lieskovsky (Nov 18)
- Re: CVE Request -- Ruby on Rails / rubygem-actionpack -- XSS in the 'translate' helper method Kurt Seifried (Nov 18)