It was discovered that the internationalization component of Ruby on Rails could, under certain circumstances, return a fallback HTML string that contained user input. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to perform a reflective cross-site scripting (XSS) attack by providing a specially crafted input to an application using the aforementioned component.
Find out more about CVE-2013-4491 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
| Base Score | 4.3 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
| Access Vector | Network |
| Access Complexity | Medium |
| Authentication | None |
| Confidentiality Impact | None |
| Integrity Impact | Partial |
| Availability Impact | None |
Find out more about Red Hat support for the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (ruby193-rubygem-actionpack) | RHSA-2013:1794 | 2013-12-05 |
| Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.4 (ruby193-rubygem-actionpack) | RHSA-2014:1863 | 2014-11-17 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 3.0 (ruby193-rubygem-actionpack) | RHSA-2014:0008 | 2014-01-06 |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1 | rubygem-actionpack | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux | ruby200-rubygem-actionpack | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Satellite 6 | ruby193-rubygem-actionpack | Will not fix |
| Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 1 | ruby193-rubygem-actionpack | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0 | ruby193-rubygem-actionpack | Not affected |
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