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Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

CVE-2023-28362

Medium
6.1/10

Summary

In Actionpack the "redirect_to" method in Rails allows provided values to contain characters which are not legal in an HTTP header value. This results in the potential for downstream services which enforce RFC compliance on HTTP response headers to remove the assigned Location header. This could be leads to Cross-site Scripting vulnerability via user supplied values to the "redirect_to" function. This vulnerability affects actionpack versions prior to 6.1.7.4 and 7.0.x prior to 7.0.5.1.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • LOW
  • CHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • NONE

CWE-79 - Cross Site Scripting

Cross-Site Scripting, commonly referred to as XSS, is the most dominant class of vulnerabilities. It allows an attacker to inject malicious code into a pregnable web application and victimize its users. The exploitation of such a weakness can cause severe issues such as account takeover, and sensitive data exfiltration. Because of the prevalence of XSS vulnerabilities and their high rate of exploitation, it has remained in the OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities for years.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published