Vulnerability CVE-2018-16471


Published: 2018-11-13   Modified: 2018-11-14

Description:
There 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.

Type:

CWE-79

(Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting'))

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
None
Affected software
Rack project -> RACK 
Debian -> Debian linux 

 References:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00032.html
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rubyonrails-security/GKsAFT924Ag
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00022.html

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