XSS in Rubyonrails Rails
CVE-2012-3464
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/output_safety.rb in Ruby on Rails before 3.0.17, 3.1.x before 3.1.8, and 3.2.x before 3.2.8 might allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving a ' (quote) character.
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: 0.026 (84.5th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 85th percentile — 84.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.026 · newest: 0.026 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Rubyonrails Rails — versions 0.9.1, 0.9.2, 0.9.3
- Rubyonrails Ruby On Rails — versions 0.5.0, 0.5.5, 0.5.6
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- weblog.rubyonrails.org/2012/8/9/ann-rails-3-2-8-has-been-released/ (Vendor Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/50694 (third-party-advisory)
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0154.html (vendor-advisory)
- groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/8f1bbe1cef8c6caf (mailing-list)