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DEBIAN-CVE-2013-1857

DEBIAN-CVE-2013-1857 PUBLISHED CVSS 9.300000190734863 CRITICAL

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.

Risk Scores

CVSS 4.0
9.300000190734863
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Debian:13rails0, 0, 0
Debian:12rails0, 0, 0
Debian:11rails0, 0, 0
Debian:14rails0, 0, 0

Exploit Intelligence

…and 5 more exploits

Timeline

  • Mar 19, 2013 CVE Published
  • Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated
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