CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-2197
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2011-06-30
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• rubyonrails rails 2.0.0
• rubyonrails rails 2.0.1
• rubyonrails rails 2.0.2
• rubyonrails rails 2.0.4
• rubyonrails rails 2.1.0
• rubyonrails rails 2.1.1
• rubyonrails rails 2.1.2
• rubyonrails rails 2.2.0
• rubyonrails rails 2.2.1
• rubyonrails rails 2.2.2
• rubyonrails rails 2.3.2
• rubyonrails rails 2.3.3
• rubyonrails rails 2.3.4
• rubyonrails rails 2.3.9
• rubyonrails rails 2.3.10
• rubyonrails rails 2.3.11
• rubyonrails rails 3.0.0
• rubyonrails rails 3.0.1
• rubyonrails rails 3.0.2
• rubyonrails rails 3.0.3
• rubyonrails rails 3.0.4
• rubyonrails rails 3.0.5
• rubyonrails rails 3.0.6
• rubyonrails rails 3.0.7
• rubyonrails rails 3.0.8
• rubyonrails ruby on rails 3.0.4
• rubyonrails rails 3.1.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
References
- http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/663b600d4471e0d4?dmode=source&output=gplain Patch
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062514.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/062090.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/09/2 Patch
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/13/9 Patch
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44789 Vendor Advisory
- http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/6/8/potential-xss-vulnerability-in-ruby-on-rails-applications Patch
- http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/663b600d4471e0d4?dmode=source&output=gplain Patch
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062514.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/062090.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/09/2 Patch
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/13/9 Patch
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44789 Vendor Advisory
- http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/6/8/potential-xss-vulnerability-in-ruby-on-rails-applications Patch