CVE-2011-2932 — Cross-site Scripting in Rails

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting7 documents6 sources
Severity
4.3MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.8%
top 25.71%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Rubyonrails RailsRubyonrails Ruby ON Rails
Timeline
PublishedAug 29
Latest updateOct 24

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/output_safety.rb in Ruby on Rails 2.x before 2.3.13, 3.0.x before 3.0.10, and 3.1.x before 3.1.0.rc5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a malformed Unicode string, related to a "UTF-8 escaping vulnerability."

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/C:N/I:P/A:NExploitability: 8.6 | Impact: 2.9

Affected Packages3 packages

▶Debianrubyonrails/rails< 2.3.14+3
▶NVDrubyonrails/rails29 versions+28

Patches

Patch: groups.google.com ↗Patch: weblog.rubyonrails.org ↗Patch: www.openwall.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
GHSA
activesupport Cross-site Scripting vulnerability↗2017-10-24
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OSV
activesupport Cross-site Scripting vulnerability↗2017-10-24
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CVEList
CVE-2011-2932: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/output_safety↗2011-08-29
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OSV
CVE-2011-2932: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/output_safety↗2011-08-29
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Debian
CVE-2011-2932: rails - Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in activesupport/lib/active_support/cor...↗2011
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2011-2932 rubygem-activesupport: XSS vulnerability in escaping function (Ruby on Rails)↗2011-08-17
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