{"answers":{"affected":"4 open source packages ship an affected version, including actionpack. It affects 2 products.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-4491 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade actionpack to a fixed version for your release line: 3.2.16 or 4.0.2.","what":"CVE-2013-4491 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Rubyonrails Rails, published on 7 Dec 2013. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2013-4491 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2013-4491 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Rubyonrails Rails, published on 7 Dec 2013. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-4491 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected packages and fixed versions:\n- actionpack (RubyGems): affected from 3.0.0; fixed in 3.2.16\n- actionpack (RubyGems): affected from 3.0.0; fixed in 3.2.16\n- actionpack (RubyGems): affected from 4.0.0; fixed in 4.0.2\n- actionpack (RubyGems): affected from 4.0.0; fixed in 4.0.2\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-4491/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-4491/index.md)","id":"CVE-2013-4491","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-4491/index.md","name":"CVE-2013-4491","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-699m-mcjm-9cw8"],"analysis":{"component_type":"web_application","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["code_execution"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Ruby on Rails","requires_auth":"none","summary":"Remote attackers can inject arbitrary web script or HTML via crafted strings in Ruby on Rails internationalization components, requiring user interaction to execute.","user_interaction":"required","vuln_class":"xss"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"redhat","cpe":[{"product":"rails","vendor":"rubyonrails"},{"product":"ruby_on_rails","vendor":"rubyonrails"}],"cvss":{"score":4.3,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N","version":"2.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-79","name":"Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation"}],"description":"Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/translation_helper.rb in the internationalization component in Ruby on Rails 3.x before 3.2.16 and 4.x before 4.0.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted string that triggers generation of a fallback string by the i18n gem.","ecosystems":["RubyGems"],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"actionpack vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting","id":"CVE-2013-4491","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":"RubyGems","product":"rubyonrails:rails","products":["rubyonrails:rails"],"type":"xss","year":"2013"},"n_packages":4,"n_references":14,"next":{"headline":"i18n gem Cross-site Scripting vulnerability","id":"CVE-2013-4492"},"packages":[{"ecosystem":"RubyGems","fixed":["3.2.16"],"introduced":["3.0.0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"actionpack","purl":null,"source":"GHSA-699m-mcjm-9cw8"},{"ecosystem":"RubyGems","fixed":["3.2.16"],"introduced":["3.0.0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"actionpack","purl":"pkg:gem/actionpack","source":"GHSA-699m-mcjm-9cw8"},{"ecosystem":"RubyGems","fixed":["4.0.2"],"introduced":["4.0.0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"actionpack","purl":null,"source":"GHSA-699m-mcjm-9cw8"},{"ecosystem":"RubyGems","fixed":["4.0.2"],"introduced":["4.0.0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"actionpack","purl":"pkg:gem/actionpack","source":"GHSA-699m-mcjm-9cw8"}],"prev":{"headline":"Command injection in n/a","id":"CVE-2013-4490"},"products":["n/a"],"published":"2013-12-07","related":[{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"Active Record contains deserialization of arbitrary YAML","id":"CVE-2013-0277","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2013-02-13"},{"cvss_score":8.1,"headline":"SQL injection in n/a","id":"CVE-2017-17916","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2017-12-29"},{"cvss_score":8.1,"headline":"SQL injection in n/a","id":"CVE-2017-17917","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2017-12-29"},{"cvss_score":8,"headline":"Rails Active Storage has possible Path Traversal in DiskService","id":"CVE-2026-33195","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2026-03-23"},{"cvss_score":7.5,"headline":"Rails possible ReDoS vulnerability in Accept header parsing in Action Dispatch","id":"CVE-2024-26142","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-02-27"},{"cvss_score":7.5,"headline":"ReDoS based DoS vulnerability in Action Dispatch","id":"CVE-2023-22792","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-02-09"},{"cvss_score":7.5,"headline":"Denial of Service in Action Dispatch","id":"CVE-2021-22902","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2021-06-11"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CC BY 4.0","name":"GitHub Advisory Database","prefix":"GHSA"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-06","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"Remote attackers can inject arbitrary web script or HTML via crafted strings in Ruby on Rails internationalization components, requiring user interaction to execute.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-4491/"}