CVE-2024-39308 — RailsAdmin is a Rails engine that provides an interface for managing data

RailsAdmin is a Rails engine that provides an interface for managing data. RailsAdmin list view has the XSS vulnerability, caused by improperly-escaped HTML title attribute. Upgrade to 3.1.3 or 2.2.2 (to be released).

01What is this vulnerability?

RailsAdmin is a Rails engine that provides an interface for managing data. RailsAdmin list view has the XSS vulnerability, caused by improperly-escaped HTML title attribute. Upgrade to 3.1.3 or 2.2.2 (to be released).

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
railsadminteam	rails_admin	>= 3.0.0, < 3.1.3, < 2.3.0

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2024-07-08T14:33:55.144Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-02T04:19:20.581Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/railsadminteam/rails_admin/security/advisories/GHSA-8qgm-g2vv…
• github.com — https://github.com/railsadminteam/rails_admin/issues/3686
• github.com — https://github.com/railsadminteam/rails_admin/commit/b5a287d82e2cbd1737a1a01e11e…
• github.com — https://github.com/railsadminteam/rails_admin/commit/d84b39884059c4ed50197cec852…
• rubygems.org — https://rubygems.org/gems/rails_admin/versions/2.3.0
• rubygems.org — https://rubygems.org/gems/rails_admin/versions/3.1.3