Bug 1877566 (CVE-2020-15169)

Summary:	CVE-2020-15169 rubygem-activeview: Cross-site scripting in translation helpers
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Pedro Sampaio <psampaio>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	akarol, bbuckingham, bcourt, bkearney, bmidwood, btotty, dmetzger, gmccullo, gtanzill, hhudgeon, jaruga, jhardy, lzap, mmccune, nmoumoul, pvalena, rchan, rjerrido, roliveri, ruby-packagers-sig, simaishi, smallamp, sokeeffe, strzibny, xlecauch
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	rubygem-activeview 5.2.4.4, rubygem-activeview 6.0.3.3	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:	A flaw was found in rubygem-actionview in versions prior to 5.2.4.4 and 6.0.3.3. When an HTML-unsafe string is passed as the default for a missing translation key, the default string is incorrectly marked as HTML-safe and not escaped. Thie highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2021-11-11 05:58:26 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On:	1877568, 1880106, 1880107, 1880124
Bug Blocks:	1877569

Description Pedro Sampaio 2020-09-09 20:47:32 UTC

A flaw was found in rubygem-actionview before versions 5.2.4.4 and 6.0.3.3. When an HTML-unsafe string is passed as the default for a missing  translation key, the default string is incorrectly marked as HTML-safe and not escaped.

References:

https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/actionview/CVE-2020-15169.yml
https://groups.google.com/g/rubyonrails-security/c/b-C9kSGXYrc?pli=1

Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2020-09-09 20:48:08 UTC

Created rubygem-actionview tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1877568]

Comment 2 Yadnyawalk Tale 2020-09-17 15:27:31 UTC

Technical information: https://groups.google.com/g/rubyonrails-security/c/b-C9kSGXYrc?pli=1
Upstream patch: https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/e663f084460ea56c55c3dc76f78c7caeddeeb02e

Comment 3 Yadnyawalk Tale 2020-09-17 15:27:36 UTC

External References:

https://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2020/9/10/Rails-5-2-4-4-and-6-0-3-3-have-been-released

Comment 8 Yadnyawalk Tale 2020-09-17 18:05:20 UTC

Statement:

Red Hat CloudForms and Red Hat Satellite 6 ships affected ActiveView RubyGem, however, those are not vulnerable since product code do not use such unsafe implementation.