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ubuntu-cve-2013-4491

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2013-12-07 00:55

Modified

2025-07-16 04:50

Summary

Details

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/translation_helper.rb in the internationalization component in Ruby on Rails 3.x before 3.2.16 and 4.x before 4.0.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted string that triggers generation of a fallback string by the i18n gem.

Severity

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-4491	REPORT
	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/1…	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-4491	REPORT

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CVE-2013-4491 (GCVE-0-2013-4491)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2013-12-07 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 16:45

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

redhat

References

14 references

URL	Tags
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0008.html	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-1…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://secunia.com/advisories/57836	third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-0…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-1…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64076	vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-1…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=r…	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2013/12/3/Rails_3_2…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1863.html	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1794.html	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.getchef.com/blog/2014/04/09/enterprise…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2888	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2013-4491	x_refsource_CONFIRM

Date Public

2013-12-03 00:00

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CVE-2013-4491 (GCVE-0-2013-4491)

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