CVE-2013-1857 describes a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Action Pack component of Ruby on Rails versions prior to 2.3.18, 3.1.12, and 3.2.13, affecting products like Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The flaw stems from improper handling of encoded colon characters in URLs by the sanitize helper, allowing attackers to inject malicious scripts. With a CVSS score of 4.3 (medium severity), this vulnerability has a network attack vector and medium attack complexity, potentially leading to information disclosure through XSS. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion, and it is not listed in CISA's KEV catalog.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.9.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:0.9.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.9.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:0.9.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.9.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:0.9.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.9.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:0.9.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
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