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CVE-2013-1855

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Publication date:
19/03/2013
Last modified:
11/04/2025

Description

The sanitize_css method in lib/action_controller/vendor/html-scanner/html/sanitizer.rb in the Action Pack component in Ruby on Rails before 2.3.18, 3.0.x and 3.1.x before 3.1.12, and 3.2.x before 3.2.13 does not properly handle \n (newline) characters, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via crafted Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) token sequences.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.30 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): None

Base Score 2.0
4.30
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:3.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:3.2.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:3.2.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:3.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:3.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:3.2.2:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:3.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:3.2.3:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:3.2.3:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:3.2.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:3.2.4:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:3.2.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:3.2.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:3.2.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:3.2.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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