Re: Re: [CVE-2013-4491] Reflective XSS Vulnerability in Ruby on Rails

[Kurt Seifried <kseifried () redhat com>]

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On 12/05/2013 10:15 AM, Christopher Dell wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> Just to clarify I18n.enforce_available_locales quickly, when I18n 
> initialises, it creates an array of the known locales called 
> I18n.available_locales. Typically, this array is created by
> scanning for YML files (in config/locales for a Rails app). With
> I8n.enforce_available_locales set to true, we check that the
> locale we're trying to use (eg. translate or localize) is included
> in the available_locales. This means we're certain it can't be
> malicious user submitted data even outside of the scope of a Rails
> app.
>
> I could really use a hand with the CVE announcements, I literally
> have no idea about any of this!
>
> Cheers,
>
> -- Chris
>
> PS. Including Sven's correct email address.

Thanks. Contact me offlist, I can walk you through it. In general I'll
be documenting this, it's not something that is documented at all in
an actually useful fashion (there's 800 page books on doing security
response which are basically useless for actually getting things done
in Open Source projects =).


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Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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