CVE-2018-16471

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Summary

CVECVE-2018-16471
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-11-13 23:29:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 02:53:00 UTC
DescriptionThere is a possible XSS vulnerability in Rack before 2.0.6 and 1.6.11. Carefully crafted requests can impact the data returned by the `scheme` method on `Rack::Request`. Applications that expect the scheme to be limited to 'http' or 'https' and do not escape the return value could be vulnerable to an XSS attack. Note that applications using the normal escaping mechanisms provided by Rails may not impacted, but applications that bypass the escaping mechanisms, or do not use them may be vulnerable.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-79

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Application Rack Project Rack All All All All
Application Rack Project Rack All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2020:0214-1: moderate: Security update f SUSE lists.opensuse.org
Google Groups MISC groups.google.com Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
USN-4089-1: Rack vulnerability | Ubuntu security notices UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2019:1553-1: moderate: Security update f SUSE lists.opensuse.org
Google Groups groups.google.com
[SECURITY] [DLA 1585-1] ruby-rack security update MLIST lists.debian.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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