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Cross-site Scripting Vulnerability in Action Pack

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Apr 27, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Apr 13, 2023

Package

bundler actionpack (RubyGems)

Affected versions

>= 5.2.0, <= 5.2.7.0
>= 6.0.0, <= 6.0.4.7
>= 6.1.0, <= 6.1.5.0
>= 7.0.0, <= 7.0.2.3

Patched versions

5.2.7.1
6.0.4.8
6.1.5.1
7.0.2.4

Description

There is a possible XSS vulnerability in Rails / Action Pack. This vulnerability has been
assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2022-22577.

Versions Affected: >= 5.2.0
Not affected: < 5.2.0
Fixed Versions: 7.0.2.4, 6.1.5.1, 6.0.4.8, 5.2.7.1

Impact

CSP headers were only sent along with responses that Rails considered as
"HTML" responses. This left API requests without CSP headers, which could
possibly expose users to XSS attacks.

Releases

The FIXED releases are available at the normal locations.

Workarounds

Set a CSP for your API responses manually.

References

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Apr 27, 2022
Reviewed Apr 27, 2022
Published by the National Vulnerability Database May 26, 2022
Last updated Apr 13, 2023

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
Required
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

EPSS score

0.741%
(81st percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2022-22577

GHSA ID

GHSA-mm33-5vfq-3mm3

Source code

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