Exposure of sensitive information in Action Pack

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

• debian debian linux10.0
• debian debian linux11.0
• rubyonrails rails5.0.0 and later · before 5.2.6.2
• rubyonrails rails6.0.0 and later · before 6.0.4.6
• rubyonrails rails6.1.0 and later · before 6.1.4.6
• rubyonrails rails7.0.0 and later · before 7.0.2.2

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (GitHub_M). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

• rails rails

  • >= 7.0.0.0, < 7.0.2.1, >= 6.1.0.0, < 6.1.4.5, >= 6.0.0.0, < 6.0.4.5, >= 5.0.0, < 5.2.6.1affected

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2019-5418There is a File Content Disclosure vulnerability in Action View <5.2.2.1, <5.1.6.2, <5.0.7.2, <4.2.11.1 and v3 where specially crafted accepKEV
  90Now
• CVE-2016-0752Directory traversal vulnerability in Action View in Ruby on Rails before 3.2.22.1, 4.0.x and 4.1.x before 4.1.14.1, 4.2.x before 4.2.5.1, anKEV
  89Now
• CVE-2019-5420A remote code execution vulnerability in development mode Rails <5.2.2.1, <6.0.0.beta3 can allow an attacker to guess the automatically gene
  66This week

Published before and after this one in the same product

• ← EarlierCVE-2011-1497Oct 19, 2021 · A cross-site scripting vulnerability flaw was found in the auto_link function in Rails before version 3.0.6.
  24Monitor
• ← EarlierCVE-2021-44528Jan 10, 2022 · A open redirect vulnerability exists in Action Pack >= 6.0.0 that could allow an attacker to craft a "X-Forwarded-Host" headers in combinati
  25Monitor
• Later →CVE-2022-3704Oct 26, 2022 · Ruby on Rails _table.html.erb cross site scripting
  21Monitor

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Root cause

The extension requests broader permissions than its function needs and sends the data it collects out for purposes beyond its stated function.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1{2  "permissions": ["tabs", "<all_urls>"],3  "background": { "service_worker": "analytics.js" }4}

1{2  "permissions": ["activeTab"],3  "host_permissions": ["https://yildiz.example/*"]4}

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.