Bug 755004 (CVE-2011-4319)

Summary:	CVE-2011-4319 rubygem-actionpack: XSS in the 'translate' helper method
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	lutter, mastahnke, mmorsi, sseago, tkramer, vanmeeuwen+fedora, vdanen, vondruch
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	rubygem-actionpack 3.0.11, rubygem-actionpack 3.1.2	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2012-08-24 15:37:21 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	755006, 755007, 760922, 813126
Bug Blocks:	755014

Description Jan Lieskovsky 2011-11-18 14:46:23 UTC

A cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw was found in the way the 'translate' helper method of the Ruby on Rails performed HTML escaping of interpolated user input, when interpolation in combination with HTML-safe translations were used. A remote attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary HTML or web script by providing a specially-crafted input to Ruby on Rails application, using the ActionPack module and its 'translate' helper method without explicit (application specific) sanitization of user provided input.

References:
[1] http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/11/18/rails-3-1-2-has-been-released
[2] http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/11/18/rails-3-0-11-has-been-released
[3] https://secunia.com/advisories/46877/
[4] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=390915

Relevant upstream patches:
[5] http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/browse_thread/thread/2b61d70fb73c7cc5

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-11-18 14:48:01 UTC

This issue affects the versions of the rubygem-actionpack package, as shipped with Fedora release of 16 and 15. Please schedule an update.

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This issue did NOT affect the version of the rubygem-actionpack package, as shipped with Fedora release of 14.

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This issue did NOT affect the version of the rubygem-actionpack package, as shipped with Fedora EPEL 5.

Comment 2 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-11-18 14:49:20 UTC

Created rubygem-actionpack tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-16 [bug 755006]
Affects: fedora-15 [bug 755007]

Comment 3 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-11-18 14:54:30 UTC

CVE request:
[6] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/18/6

Comment 4 Vincent Danen 2011-11-18 19:19:47 UTC

This issue was given the name CVE-2011-4319:

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/18/8

Comment 5 Vincent Danen 2011-11-28 17:22:52 UTC

This is corrected in upstream versions 3.0.11 and 3.1.2 (but 3.1.3 is recommended due to regressions in 3.1.2).

http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/11/20/rails-3-1-3-has-been-released

Comment 9 Kurt Seifried 2012-04-25 20:29:13 UTC

[1] http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/11/18/rails-3-1-2-has-been-released
[2] http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/11/18/rails-3-0-11-has-been-released

are now

[1] http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/11/17/rails-3-1-2-has-been-released
[2] http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/11/17/rails-3-0-11-has-been-released