RDoc 2.3.0 through 3.12 XSS Exploit¶ ↑

RDoc documentation generated by rdoc 2.3.0 through rdoc 3.12 and prereleases up to rdoc 4.0.0.preview2.1 are vulnerable to an XSS exploit. This exploit may lead to cookie disclosure to third parties.

The exploit exists in darkfish.js which is copied from the RDoc install location to the generated documentation.

RDoc is a static documentation generation tool. Patching the library itself is insufficient to correct this exploit. Those hosting rdoc documentation will need to apply the following patch. If applied while ignoring whitespace, this patch will correct all affected versions:

diff --git darkfish.js darkfish.js
index 4be722f..f26fd45 100644
--- darkfish.js
+++ darkfish.js
@@ -109,13 +109,15 @@ function hookSearch() {
 function highlightTarget( anchor ) {
   console.debug( "Highlighting target '%s'.", anchor );

-  $("a[name=" + anchor + "]").each( function() {
-    if ( !$(this).parent().parent().hasClass('target-section') ) {
-      console.debug( "Wrapping the target-section" );
-      $('div.method-detail').unwrap( 'div.target-section' );
-      $(this).parent().wrap( '<div class="target-section"></div>' );
-    } else {
-      console.debug( "Already wrapped." );
+  $("a[name]").each( function() {
+    if ( $(this).attr("name") == anchor ) {
+      if ( !$(this).parent().parent().hasClass('target-section') ) {
+        console.debug( "Wrapping the target-section" );
+        $('div.method-detail').unwrap( 'div.target-section' );
+        $(this).parent().wrap( '<div class="target-section"></div>' );
+      } else {
+        console.debug( "Already wrapped." );
+      }
     }
   });
 };

RDoc 3.9.5, 3.12.1 and RDoc 4.0.0.rc.2 and newer are not vulnerable to this exploit.

This exploit was discovered by Evgeny Ermakov <corwmh@gmail.com>.

This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2013-0256.