activesupport Cross-site Scripting vulnerability

GHSA-vxvp-4xwc-jpp6 · CVE-2015-3226

Published Oct 24, 2017 · Modified Nov 4, 2025

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in json/encoding.rb in Active Support in Ruby on Rails 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.

References

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

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