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CVE-2015-3226 (GCVE-0-2015-3226)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-07-26 22:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 05:39
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=r… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75231 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/16/17 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3464 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Date Public
2015-06-16 00:00
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