CVEvulnerability

CVE-2011-2197

4.3 MEDIUM Published 2011-06-30 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
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