Cross-site scripting in Ruby on Rails - CVE-2013-1857

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Cross-site scripting in Ruby on Rails - CVE-2013-1857

Published: March 20, 2013 / Updated: July 28, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU32878
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-1857
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data when processing data passed via a crafted scheme name, as demonstrated by including a : sequence. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.


Affected software

Ruby on Rails
ruby-rails (Alpine package)

How to mitigate CVE-2013-1857

The vendor has issued the following versions to address this vulnerability: 2.3.18, 3.1.12, 3.2.13.

Ruby on Rails - addressed in versions 2.3.18, 3.1.12, 3.2.13
ruby-rails (Alpine package) - update to 2.3.18-r0

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