CVE-2013-1857 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2013-1857

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

Vulnerability Description

The sanitize helper 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 encoded : (colon) characters in URLs, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a crafted scheme name, as demonstrated by including a : sequence.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

enterprise linux, rails, ruby on rails
Vulnerable Versions:
6.0, 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, 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, 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

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

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