Cross-site Scripting Vulnerability in Action Pack
There is a possible XSS vulnerability in Rails / Action Pack. This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2022-22577. Versions Affected: >= 5.2.0 Not affected: < 5.2.0 Fixed Versions: 7.0.2.4, 6.1.5.1, 6.0.4.8, 5.2.7.1 ## Impact CSP headers were only sent along with responses that Rails considered as "HTML" responses. This left API requests without CSP headers, which could possibly expose users to XSS attacks. ## Releases The FIXED releases are available at the normal locations. ## Workarounds Set a CSP for your API responses manually.
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Related CVEs.
| ID | severity | exploitable | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2022-22577US | medium6.1 | — | ||
An XSS Vulnerability in Action Pack >= 5.2.0 and < 5.2.0 that could allow an attacker to bypass CSP for non HTML like responses. | ||||
references
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/cve-2022-22577-possible-xss-vulnerability-in-action-pack/80533WEB
- https://github.com/rails/railsPACKAGE
- https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/2b820a2a69fa50cffa74b4aedc57bf92ed6910ecWEB
- https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/5299b57d596ea274f77f5ffee2b79c6ee0255508WEB
- https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/8198d7c4accad0b6ba956b9d59528534a289866bWEB
- https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/d2253115ac2b30f5f7210670af906cebf79cf809WEB
- https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/44635WEB
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/actionpack/CVE-2022-22577.ymlWEB
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