CVE-2011-2932

Ruby on Rails 2.x < 2.3.13, 3.0.x < 3.0.10, 3.1.x < 3.1.0.rc5 - Cross-Site Scripting via Malformed Unicode String

Title source: llm

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/output_safety.rb in Ruby on Rails 2.x before 2.3.13, 3.0.x before 3.0.10, and 3.1.x before 3.1.0.rc5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a malformed Unicode string, related to a "UTF-8 escaping vulnerability."

References (14)

Core 14

Core References

Patch x_refsource_confirm

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=731435

Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia

http://secunia.com/advisories/45917

Patch mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/17/1

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/065114.html

Patch mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/22/13

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/065189.html

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/065212.html

Patch mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/19/11

Patch mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/20/1

Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/22/14

Patch x_refsource_confirm

https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/bfc432574d0b141fd7fe759edfe9b6771dd306bd

Patch mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/22/5

Patch mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/f1d2749773db9f21?dmode=source&output=gplain

Patch x_refsource_confirm

http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/8/16/ann-rails-3-1-0-rc6

Scores

EPSS 0.0081

EPSS Percentile 74.4%

Details

CWE

CWE-79

Status published

Products (28)

rubygems/activesupport 2.0.0 - 2.3.13RubyGems

rubyonrails/rails 2.0.0 (3 CPE variants)

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

... and 18 more

Published Aug 29, 2011

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026