Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in exceptions.rb in the i18n gem before 0.6.6 for Ruby allows remote attackers to inject…

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in exceptions.rb in the i18n gem before 0.6.6 for Ruby allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted I18n::MissingTranslationData.new call.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

2.2% · top 17% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-79 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-79 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

Affected packages

From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.

• RubyGemsi18nGHSA-r5hc-9xx5-97rw (opens in a new tab)

References (6)

• openSUSE-SU-2013:1930 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• 64076 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• [ruby-security-ann] 20131203 [CVE-2013-4491] Reflective XSS Vulnerability in Ruby on Rails (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2013/12/3/Rails_3_2_16_and_4_0_2_have_been_released/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• DSA-2830 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• https://github.com/svenfuchs/i18n/commit/92b57b1e4f84adcdcc3a375278f299274be62445 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisory GHSA-r5hc-9xx5-97rw (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

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Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 16:45 UTC.