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CVE-2022-22577 (GCVE-0-2022-22577)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-05-26 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-03 03:14
VLAI
Summary
An XSS Vulnerability in Action Pack >= 5.2.0 and < 5.2.0 that could allow an attacker to bypass CSP for non HTML like responses.
Severity
6.1 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Cross-site Scripting (XSS) - Stored (CWE-79)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
n/a https://github.com/rails/rails Affected: 7.0.2.4, 6.1.5.1, 6.0.4.8, 5.2.7.1
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