XSS in Rubyonrails Rails
CVE-2011-0446
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the mail_to helper in Ruby on Rails before 2.3.11, and 3.x before 3.0.4, when javascript encoding is used, allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted (1) name or (2) email value.
Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.024 (83.0th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 83rd percentile — 83.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.024 · newest: 0.024 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Rubyonrails Rails — versions 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0587 (vdb-entry)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055088.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/46291 (vdb-entry)
- www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2247 (vendor-advisory)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/057650.html (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/43274 (third-party-advisory)
- www.securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/365b8a23b76a6b4a (mailing-list, Patch)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0877 (vdb-entry)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055074.html (vendor-advisory)