CVE-2015-3226 (Low) detected in activesupport-4.1.0.gem

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CVE-2015-3226 - Low Severity Vulnerability

Vulnerable Library - activesupport-4.1.0.gem

A toolkit of support libraries and Ruby core extensions extracted from the Rails framework. Rich support for multibyte strings, internationalization, time zones, and testing.

Library home page: https://rubygems.org/gems/activesupport-4.1.0.gem

Dependency Hierarchy:

• rails-4.1.0.gem (Root Library)
  • actionmailer-4.1.0.gem
    • actionview-4.1.0.gem
      • ❌ activesupport-4.1.0.gem (Vulnerable Library)

Found in HEAD commit: 5a413d9b2f9c78839525a25524a6091e2a91db92

Found in base branch: master

Vulnerability Details

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in json/encoding.rb in Active Support in Ruby on Rails 3.x and 4.1.x before 4.1.11 and 4.2.x before 4.2.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted Hash that is mishandled during JSON encoding.

Publish Date: 2015-07-26

URL: CVE-2015-3226

CVSS 3 Score Details (3.7)

Base Score Metrics:

• Exploitability Metrics:
  • Attack Vector: Network
  • Attack Complexity: High
  • Privileges Required: None
  • User Interaction: None
  • Scope: Unchanged
• Impact Metrics:
  • Confidentiality Impact: None
  • Integrity Impact: Low
  • Availability Impact: None

For more information on CVSS3 Scores, click here.

Suggested Fix

Type: Upgrade version

Origin: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-3226

Release Date: 2015-07-26

Fix Resolution: 4.1.11,4.2.2