CVE-2012-3464

Rails < 3.0.16 - XSS

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Description

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.

References (4)

[Vendor Advisory] http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0154.html

[Third Party Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/50694

[Vendor Advisory] http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2012/8/9/ann-rails-3-2-8-has-been-released/

[Mailing List] https://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/8f1bbe1cef8c6caf?dmode=source&output=gplain

Scores

EPSS 0.0033

EPSS Percentile 55.8%

Classification

CWE

CWE-79

Status published

Affected Products (50)

rubyonrails/rails

... and 35 more

Timeline

Published Aug 10, 2012

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026