4.8
MEDIUM CVSS 3.1
CVE-2020-5267
Microsoft Edge Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
Description

In ActionView before versions 6.0.2.2 and 5.2.4.2, there is a possible XSS vulnerability in ActionView's JavaScript literal escape helpers. Views that use the `j` or `escape_javascript` methods may be susceptible to XSS attacks. The issue is fixed in versions 6.0.2.2 and 5.2.4.2.

INFO

Published Date :

March 19, 2020, 6:15 p.m.

Last Modified :

Nov. 21, 2024, 5:33 a.m.

Remotely Exploit :

Yes !

Source :

[email protected]
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2020-5267 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Rubyonrails rails
2 Rubyonrails actionview
1 Fedoraproject fedora
1 Debian debian_linux
1 Opensuse leap
: Total Affected Vendor : 4 | Products : 5
CVSS Scores
The Common Vulnerability Scoring System is a standardized framework for assessing the severity of vulnerabilities in software and systems. We collect and displays CVSS scores from various sources for each CVE.
Score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Score Impact Score Source
CVSS 2.0 LOW [email protected]
CVSS 3.1 MEDIUM [email protected]
CVSS 3.1 MEDIUM [email protected]
Solution
Follow the instructions below to mitigate the CVE-2020-5267 vulnerability.
To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product : SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15-SP1 : zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Server-Applications-15-SP1-2020-3160=1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Public Cloud 15-SP1 : zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Public-Cloud-15-SP1-2020-3160=1
Public PoC/Exploit Available at Github

CVE-2020-5267 has a 6 public PoC/Exploit available at Github. Go to the Public Exploits tab to see the list.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information, practical solutions, and valuable tools related to CVE-2020-5267.

URL Resource
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00019.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/03/19/1 Exploit Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/033a738817abd6e446e1b320cb7d1a5c15224e9a Patch Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/rails/rails/security/advisories/GHSA-65cv-r6x7-79hv Exploit Patch Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/03/msg00022.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XJ7NUWXAEVRQCROIIBV4C6WXO6IR3KSB/
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00019.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/03/19/1 Exploit Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/033a738817abd6e446e1b320cb7d1a5c15224e9a Patch Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/rails/rails/security/advisories/GHSA-65cv-r6x7-79hv Exploit Patch Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/03/msg00022.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XJ7NUWXAEVRQCROIIBV4C6WXO6IR3KSB/
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

While CVE identifies specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2020-5267 is associated with the following CWEs:

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC) stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2020-5267 weaknesses.

We scan GitHub repositories to detect new proof-of-concept exploits. Following list is a collection of public exploits and proof-of-concepts, which have been published on GitHub (sorted by the most recently updated).

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soosmile/POC

None

Updated: 4 months, 2 weeks ago
9 stars 1 fork 1 watcher
Born at : June 21, 2022, 7:45 a.m. This repo has been linked 944 different CVEs too.
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developer3000S/PoC-in-GitHub

None

Updated: 1 month, 3 weeks ago
37 stars 4 fork 4 watcher
Born at : March 12, 2021, 12:22 p.m. This repo has been linked 1063 different CVEs too.
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hectorgie/PoC-in-GitHub

None

Updated: 4 months, 2 weeks ago
18 stars 10 fork 10 watcher
Born at : Jan. 2, 2021, 10:19 p.m. This repo has been linked 1053 different CVEs too.
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0xT11/CVE-POC

None

Updated: 1 month, 3 weeks ago
84 stars 31 fork 31 watcher
Born at : Oct. 2, 2020, 2:49 p.m. This repo has been linked 1114 different CVEs too.
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GUI/legacy-rails-CVE-2020-5267-patch

Patch CVE-2020-5267 for Rails 4 and Rails 3

Ruby Shell

Updated: 1 year ago
1 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : March 23, 2020, 4:16 p.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.
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rainchen/code_quality

run code quality and security audit report with one command

Ruby Shell HTML

Updated: 3 years, 11 months ago
4 stars 3 fork 3 watcher
Born at : Dec. 21, 2017, 8:38 a.m. This repo has been linked 3 different CVEs too.

Results are limited to the first 15 repositories due to potential performance issues.

The following list is the news that have been mention CVE-2020-5267 vulnerability anywhere in the article.

Results are limited to the first 20 news articles due to potential performance issues.

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2020-5267 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

    Nov. 21, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00019.html
    Added Reference http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/03/19/1
    Added Reference https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/033a738817abd6e446e1b320cb7d1a5c15224e9a
    Added Reference https://github.com/rails/rails/security/advisories/GHSA-65cv-r6x7-79hv
    Added Reference https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/03/msg00022.html
    Added Reference https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XJ7NUWXAEVRQCROIIBV4C6WXO6IR3KSB/
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Nov. 07, 2023

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference GitHub, Inc. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XJ7NUWXAEVRQCROIIBV4C6WXO6IR3KSB/ [No types assigned]
    Removed Reference GitHub, Inc. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/XJ7NUWXAEVRQCROIIBV4C6WXO6IR3KSB/
  • Modified Analysis by [email protected]

    Feb. 03, 2023

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed Reference Type http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00019.html No Types Assigned http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00019.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/03/19/1 Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/03/19/1 Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/03/msg00022.html Third Party Advisory https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/03/msg00022.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/XJ7NUWXAEVRQCROIIBV4C6WXO6IR3KSB/ No Types Assigned https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/XJ7NUWXAEVRQCROIIBV4C6WXO6IR3KSB/ Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
    Changed CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* OR *cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:33:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Oct. 05, 2020

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/XJ7NUWXAEVRQCROIIBV4C6WXO6IR3KSB/ [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 11, 2020

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00019.html [No Types Assigned]
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Mar. 23, 2020

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V2 Metadata Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
    Added CVSS V2 NIST (AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)
    Added CVSS V3.1 NIST AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
    Changed Reference Type http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/03/19/1 No Types Assigned http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/03/19/1 Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/033a738817abd6e446e1b320cb7d1a5c15224e9a No Types Assigned https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/033a738817abd6e446e1b320cb7d1a5c15224e9a Patch, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://github.com/rails/rails/security/advisories/GHSA-65cv-r6x7-79hv No Types Assigned https://github.com/rails/rails/security/advisories/GHSA-65cv-r6x7-79hv Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/03/msg00022.html No Types Assigned https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/03/msg00022.html Third Party Advisory
    Added CWE NIST CWE-79
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:actionview:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 5.2.4.2 *cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:actionview:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 6.0.0 up to (excluding) 6.0.2.2
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Mar. 20, 2020

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/03/msg00022.html [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Mar. 19, 2020

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/03/19/1 [No Types Assigned]
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
Vulnerability Scoring Details
Base CVSS Score: 4.8
Attack Vector
Attack Complexity
Privileges Required
User Interaction
Scope
Confidentiality Impact
Integrity Impact
Availability Impact
Base CVSS Score: 3.5
Access Vector
Access Complexity
Authentication
Confidentiality Impact
Integrity Impact
Availability Impact
Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

0.89 }} -0.00%

score

0.74524

percentile