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CVE-2013-6415

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-6415 describes a Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the number_to_currency helper within Ruby on Rails versions prior to 3.2.16 and 4.0.2. This flaw allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by manipulating the 'unit' parameter. With a CVSS score of 4.3 (medium severity), it requires medium attack complexity and could lead to information disclosure or defacement, but not impact availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:3.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:3.0.0:beta:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:3.0.0:beta2:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:3.0.0:beta3:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:3.0.0:beta4:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.17%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
86.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0317 is in the 80th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (20)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.4Fixed in: ruby193-rubygem-rails-1:3.2.17-1.el6sam
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.4Fixed in: ruby193-rubygem-railties-1:3.2.17-1.el6sam
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: OpenStack 3 for RHEL 6Fixed in: ruby193-rubygem-actionpack-1:3.2.8-5.1.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for RHEL-6Fixed in: ruby193-rubygem-actionpack-1:3.2.8-5.1.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.4Fixed in: katello-0:1.4.3.28-1.el6sam_splice
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.4Fixed in: ruby193-rubygem-actionmailer-1:3.2.17-1.el6sam
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.4Fixed in: ruby193-rubygem-actionpack-1:3.2.17-6.el6sam
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.4Fixed in: ruby193-rubygem-activemodel-1:3.2.17-1.el6sam
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.4Fixed in: ruby193-rubygem-activerecord-1:3.2.17-5.el6sam
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.4Fixed in: ruby193-rubygem-activeresource-1:3.2.17-1.el6sam
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.4Fixed in: ruby193-rubygem-activesupport-1:3.2.17-2.el6sam
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.4Fixed in: ruby193-rubygem-i18n-0:0.6.9-1.el6sam
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.4Fixed in: ruby193-rubygem-mail-0:2.5.4-1.el6sam
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.4Fixed in: ruby193-rubygem-rack-1:1.4.5-3.el6sam
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rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: actionpackFixed in: 3.2.16
rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: actionpackFixed in: 4.0.2
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5Fixed in: ruby193-rubygem-actionpack
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Satellite 6Fixed in: ruby193-rubygem-actionpack
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset ManagerFixed in: rubygem-actionpack
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: OpenShift Enterprise 1Fixed in: ruby193-rubygem-actionpack

Vendor Advisories (2)

rubygemsGHSA-6h5q-96hp-9jgmmedium

actionpack vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting

Oct 24, 2017
redhatCVE-2013-6415Moderate

rubygem-actionpack: number_to_currency XSS

Dec 3, 2013

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00079.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00080.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00081.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00082.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2014-01/msg00003.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2014-01/msg00013.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-1794.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2014-0008.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2014-1863.html
secunia.com / advisories/56093
groups.google.com / forum/message/raw
puppet.com / security/cve/cve-2013-6415
weblog.rubyonrails.org / 2013/12/3/Rails_3_2_16_and_4_0_2_have_been_released
PatchVendor Advisory
debian.org / security/2014/dsa-2888
securityfocus.com / bid/64077