CVE-2015-3226

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in json/encoding.rb in Active Support in Ruby on Rails 3.x and 4.1.x before 4.1.11 and 4.2.x before 4.2.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted Hash that is mishandled during JSON encoding.

Affected packages (3)

• Debian/railsfrom 0, < 2:4.2.4-2
• Debian/railsfrom 0, < 2:4.1.8-1+deb8u1
• RubyGems/activesupport>= 4.1.0, < 4.1.11

References (9)

• ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-3226
• ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-3226
• PATCHhttps://github.com/rails/rails
• WEBhttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/16/17
• WEBhttps://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=rubyonrails-security/7VlB_pck3hU/3QZrGIaQW6cJ
• WEBhttps://groups.google.com/g/rubyonrails-core/c/qBUqVlXERag/m/kuH3wQk1kxUJ
• WEBhttps://web.archive.org/web/20200228033946/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75231
• WEBhttps://web.archive.org/web/20200517005133/http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033755
• WEBhttp://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3464