🛡️ GHSA-9chr-4fjh-5rgw — actionpack (CVE-2022-3704)

🟢 CVSS 2.0 — Low ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-707 OSV
2.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Cross-site Scripting in actionpack

actionpack from the Ruby on Rails project is vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting in the Route Error Page. This issue has been patched with this [commit](https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/be177e4566747b73ff63fd5f529fab564e475ed4).

This vulnerability is disputed by the Rails security team. It requires that the developer is tricked into copy pasting a malicious javascript-containing string into a development-only error page accessible only via localhost.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity low, availability none.

Weakness class

GHSA-9chr-4fjh-5rgw is classified as CWE-707: Improper Neutralization. The product does not ensure or incorrectly ensures that structured messages or data are well-formed and that certain security properties are met before being read from an upstream component or sent to a downstream component.

Affected software

GHSA-9chr-4fjh-5rgw is recorded against 1 package.

  • actionpack

Timeline and source

Published on 27 October 2022 and last revised on 21 March 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
vuldb.com (Web)

Details

Severity LOW
CVSS Score 2.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE CWE-707
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-10-27
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2024-03-21
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
actionpack — —

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