CVE-2014-2538

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-03-25 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in lib/rack/ssl.rb in the rack-ssl gem before 1.4.0 for Ruby allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a URI, which might not be properly handled by third-party adapters such as JRuby-Rack.

Affected products

Joshua Peek Rack-Ssl: through 1.3.4; 1.0.0, 1.1.0, 1.2.0, 1.3.0, 1.3.1, 1.3.2 (+1)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-04/msg00032.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/57466
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/19/20
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66314
https://github.com/josh/rack-ssl/commit/9d7d7300b907e496db68d89d07fbc2e0df0b487b
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-04/msg00032.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/57466
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/19/20
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66314
https://github.com/josh/rack-ssl/commit/9d7d7300b907e496db68d89d07fbc2e0df0b487b

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