CVE-2013-6415

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2013-6415  

It was found that the number_to_currency Action View helper did not properly escape the unit parameter. An attacker could use this flaw to perform a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack on an application that uses data submitted by a user in the unit parameter.

It was found that the number_to_currency Action View helper did not properly escape the unit parameter. An attacker could use this flaw to perform a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack on an application that uses data submitted by a user in the unit parameter.

Find out more about CVE-2013-6415 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

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

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Red Hat Security Errata

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

Affected Packages State

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

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank Ruby on Rails upstream for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Ankit Gupta as the original reporter.