362507 – (CVE-2011-1497) <dev-ruby/rails-3.0.7: XSS Vulnerability (CVE-2011-1497)

Bug 362507 (CVE-2011-1497) - <dev-ruby/rails-3.0.7: XSS Vulnerability (CVE-2011-1497)

Summary: <dev-ruby/rails-3.0.7: XSS Vulnerability (CVE-2011-1497)

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	CVE-2011-1497

Product:	Gentoo Security
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Security

URL:	http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/4/...
Whiteboard:	~4 [noglsa]
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Reported:	2011-04-07 19:31 UTC by Tim Sammut (RETIRED)
Modified:	2011-04-27 04:09 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Tim Sammut (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-04-07 19:31:49 UTC

From $URL:

Rails versions 3.0.x prior to 3.0.6 contain an XSS vulnerability. The vulnerability manifests itself via the auto_link method. The auto_link method will automatically mark input strings as "html safe" even if the input is from an unknown origin.

For example:

<%= auto_link(params[:content]) %>

If the "content" parameter contains malicious javascript, that script will be rendered without being escaped.

@ruby, please bump the unstable version to 3.0.6 and drop 3.0.3. Thanks!

Comment 1 Hans de Graaff gentoo-dev

2011-04-26 18:08:00 UTC

Rails 3.0.7 is now in the tree.

Comment 2 Tim Sammut (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-04-27 04:09:41 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> Rails 3.0.7 is now in the tree.

Great, thank you. Closing noglsa.