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CVE-2014-2538
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…
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 2.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 17% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
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By mitre
- 7 days later
· 7 days later
Published
- 10 years later
· 10 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.2% · top 17% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- RubyGemsrack-sslGHSA-v3rr-cph9-2g2q (opens in a new tab)
References
References5
- [oss-security] 20140319 Re: CVE Request: rack-ssl rubygem: XSS in error page (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://github.com/josh/rack-ssl/commit/9d7d7300b907e496db68d89d07fbc2e0df0b487b (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 66314 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2014:0515 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 57466 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2017-0309 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-v3rr-cph9-2g2q (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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