Vulnerability advisory

GHSA-vxvp-4xwc-jpp6

activesupport Cross-site Scripting vulnerability

Published Oct 24, 2017Updated Nov 4, 2025OSV record ↗

Also known as CVE-2015-3226

Severity

Severity not reported.

Affected versions

activesupport RubyGems

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Affected	Fixed in
`4.1.0` to before 4.1.11	`4.1.11`Advisories →
Also listed as affected (22) `4.1.0` `4.1.1` `4.1.10` `4.1.10.rc1` `4.1.10.rc2` `4.1.10.rc3` `4.1.10.rc4` `4.1.2` `4.1.2.rc1` `4.1.2.rc2` `4.1.2.rc3` `4.1.3` `4.1.4` `4.1.5` `4.1.6` `4.1.6.rc1` `4.1.6.rc2` `4.1.7` `4.1.7.1` `4.1.8` `4.1.9` `4.1.9.rc1`
`4.2.0` to before 4.2.2	`4.2.2`Advisories →
Also listed as affected (6) `4.2.0` `4.2.1` `4.2.1.rc1` `4.2.1.rc2` `4.2.1.rc3` `4.2.1.rc4`

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in json/encoding.rb in Active Support in Ruby on Rails 4.1.x before 4.1.11 and 4.2.x before 4.2.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted Hash that is mishandled during JSON encoding.

GHSA-vxvp-4xwc-jpp6

Affected versions

activesupport RubyGems

Description

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