CVE-2014-2538

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Summary

CVECVE-2014-2538
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2014-03-25 18:21:48 UTC
Updated2026-05-06 22:30:45 UTC
DescriptionCross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in lib/rack/ssl.rb in the rack-ssl gem before 1.4.0 for Ruby allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a URI, which might not be properly handled by third-party adapters such as JRuby-Rack.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 4.3 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Problem Types: CWE-79 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Partial
Availability
None

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Joshua Peek Rack-ssl 1.0.0 All All All
Application Joshua Peek Rack-ssl 1.1.0 All All All
Application Joshua Peek Rack-ssl 1.2.0 All All All
Application Joshua Peek Rack-ssl 1.3.0 All All All
Application Joshua Peek Rack-ssl 1.3.1 All All All
Application Joshua Peek Rack-ssl 1.3.2 All All All
Application Joshua Peek Rack-ssl 1.3.3 All All All
Application Joshua Peek Rack-ssl All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Security Advisory SA57466 - Ruby rack-ssl Gem Error Page Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
oss-security - Re: CVE Request: rack-ssl rubygem: XSS in error page af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com
openSUSE-SU-2014:0515-1: moderate: update for rubygem-rack-ssl af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
Handle bad URIs gracefully. · josh/rack-ssl@9d7d730 · GitHub af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 github.com Patch
RubyGems rack-ssl 'lib/rack/ssl.rb' Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
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