XSS in Rubyonrails Rails
CVE-2011-2197
The cross-site scripting (XSS) prevention feature in Ruby on Rails 2.x before 2.3.12, 3.0.x before 3.0.8, and 3.1.x before 3.1.0.rc2 does not properly handle mutation of safe buffers, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct XSS attacks via crafted strings to an application that uses a problematic string method, as demonstrated by the sub method.
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: 0.020 (79.6th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 80th percentile — 79.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.020 · newest: 0.020 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Rubyonrails Rails — versions 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2
- Rubyonrails Ruby On Rails — versions 3.0.4
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/663b600d4471e0d4 (mailing-list, Patch)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/062090.html (vendor-advisory)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062514.html (vendor-advisory)
- weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/6/8/potential-xss-vulnerability-in-ruby-on-rails-ap… (Patch)
- secunia.com/advisories/44789 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/09/2 (mailing-list, Patch)
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/13/9 (mailing-list, Patch)