Cross-site Scripting (XSS) The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package rails  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1504-RAILS-655884
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed19 Oct 2021

Introduced: 10 Sep 2020

CVE-2011-1497  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:15.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream rails package and not the rails package as distributed by Ubuntu.

A cross-site scripting vulnerability flaw was found in the auto_link function in Rails before version 3.0.6.