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prionPRIOn knowledge basePRION:CVE-2013-1857
HistoryMar 19, 2013 - 10:55 p.m.

Cross site scripting

2013-03-1922:55:00
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15

5.8 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

73.9%

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.