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medium 6.1

CVE-2022-27777 json

XSS Vulnerability in Action View tag helpers

published 2022-04-27 4 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-ch3h-j2vf-95pv , EUVD-2022-1707

cvss
6.1
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.7%
EPSS 1.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 76%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A XSS Vulnerability in Action View tag helpers >= 5.2.0 and < 5.2.0 which would allow an attacker to inject content if able to control input into specific attributes.

Patch / fix

  • rubygems actionview 5.2.7.1, 6.0.4.8, 6.1.5.1, 7.0.2.4
  • rubyonrails actionpack 5.2.7.1, 6.0.4.8, 6.1.5.1, 7.0.2.4
  • rails Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2:6.1.6.1+dfsg-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-27777

  • cjson satellite capsule 6.13, satellite 6.13 1.7.14-5.el8sat
  • foreman satellite utils 6.13, satellite capsule 6.13, satellite 6.13 3.5.1.14-1.el8sat
  • katello satellite capsule 6.13, satellite 6.13 4.7.0-1.el8sat
  • libsolv satellite capsule 6.13, satellite 6.13 0.7.22-4.el8pc
  • libcomps satellite capsule 6.13, satellite 6.13 0.1.18-4.el8pc
  • qpid-cpp satellite capsule 6.13, satellite 6.13 1.39.0-7.el8amq
  • qpid-qmf satellite capsule 6.13, satellite 6.13 1.39.0-7.el8amq
  • candlepin satellite 6.13 4.2.13-1.el8sat

red hat advisories RHSA-2023:2097

  • rubygem-actionview-5_1 SLE High Availability Extension 15 SP4, SLE High Availability Extension 15 SP3, SLE High Availability Extension 15 SP2 +2 more 5.1.4-150000.3.6.1
  • rubygem-actionview-4_2 OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9, OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8 4.2.9-9.15.1
  • rubygem-activesupport-4_2 OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9, OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8 4.2.9-7.12.1
  • rubygem-activesupport-5_1 SLE High Availability Extension 15 SP4, SLE High Availability Extension 15 SP3, SLE High Availability Extension 15 SP2 +4 more 5.1.4-150000.3.9.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2023:2059-1SUSE-SU-2022:3860-1SUSE-SU-2022:3621-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2022-27777 updated cvss 7.5

tfm-rubygem-actionview: Possible cross-site scripting vulnerability in Action View tag helpers

  • Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine 5 actionview
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat 3scale API Management Platform 2 actionview
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Satellite 6.13 for RHEL 8 rubygem-actionview 6.1.7-1.el8sat
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:2097
  • Red Hat Satellite 6.13 for RHEL 8 cjson 1.7.14-5.el8sat, katello 4.7.0-1.el8sat, libsolv 0.7.22-4.el8pc, libcomps 0.1.18-4.el8pc, python-idna 3.3-2.el8pc, python-pbr 5.8.0-4.el8pc, +670 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.67% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 76% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • discuss.rubyonrails.org https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/cve-2022-27777-possible-xss-vulnerability-in-action-view-tag-helpers/80534 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
GitHub 3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
rubygems actionview
<5.2.7.1
>=6.0.0, <6.0.4.8
>=6.1.0, <6.1.5.1
>=7.0.0, <7.0.2.4
5.2.7.1
6.0.4.8
6.1.5.1
7.0.2.4

Affected products

  • n/a https://github.com/rails/rails

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation
Technology feeds

References

Sources

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