The sanitize helper 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 encoded : (colon) characters in URLs, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a crafted scheme name, as demonstrated by including a : sequence.
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2013-03-19T22:00:00

Updated: 2014-12-09T18:57:01

Reserved: 2013-02-19T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2013-1857

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2013-03-19T22:55:01.087

Modified: 2019-08-08T15:42:45.623


Link: CVE-2013-1857

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