CVE-2013-1855 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2013-1855

The sanitize_css method in lib/action_controller/vendor/html-scanner/html/sanitizer.rb in the Action Pack component...

Vulnerability Description

The sanitize_css method in lib/action_controller/vendor/html-scanner/html/sanitizer.rb in the Action Pack component in Ruby on Rails before 2.3.18, 3.0.x and 3.1.x before 3.1.12, and 3.2.x before 3.2.13 does not properly handle \n (newline) characters, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via crafted Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) token sequences.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

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Affected Vendor

rubyonrails

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Affected Software

rails, ruby on rails, enterprise linux
Vulnerable Versions:
3.2.0, 3.2.1, 3.2.2, 3.2.3, 3.2.4, 3.2.5, 3.2.6, 3.2.7, 3.2.8, 3.2.9, 3.2.10, 3.2.11, 3.2.12, 0.9.1, 0.9.2, 0.9.3, 0.9.4, 0.9.4.1, 0.10.0, 0.10.1, 0.11.0, 0.11.1, 0.12.0, 0.12.1, 0.13.0, 0.13.1, 0.14.1, 0.14.2, 0.14.3, 0.14.4, 1.0.0, 1.1.0, 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3, 1.1.4, 1.1.5, 1.1.6, 1.2.0, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.2.3, 1.2.4, 1.2.5, 1.2.6, 1.9.5, 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.4, 2.1.0, 2.1.1, 2.1.2, 2.2.0, 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.3.0, 2.3.1, 2.3.2, 2.3.3, 2.3.4, 2.3.9, 2.3.10, 2.3.11, 2.3.12, 2.3.13, 2.3.14, 2.3.15, 2.3.16, 3.0.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.0.3, 3.0.4, 3.0.5, 3.0.6, 3.0.7, 3.0.8, 3.0.9, 3.0.10, 3.0.11, 3.0.12, 3.0.13, 3.0.14, 3.0.16, 3.0.17, 3.0.18, 3.0.19, 3.0.20, 3.1.0, 3.1.1, 3.1.2, 3.1.3, 3.1.4, 3.1.5, 3.1.6, 3.1.7, 3.1.8, 3.1.9, 3.1.10, 0, 0.5.0, 0.5.5, 0.5.6, 0.5.7, 0.6.0, 0.6.5, 0.7.0, 0.8.0, 0.8.5, 0.9.0, 3.1.11, 6.0

Timeline

Official Publish: March 19th, 2013
Last Modified: August 6th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.