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CVE-2011-2932
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/output_safety.rb in Ruby on Rails 2.x before…
Medium4.3EPSS 2.5%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
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."
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.5% · top 15% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- RubyGemsactivesupportGHSA-9fh3-vh3h-q4g3 (opens in a new tab)
References (14)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=731435 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 45917 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20110817 CVE request: ruby on rails flaws (4) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- FEDORA-2011-11579 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20110822 Re: CVE request: ruby on rails flaws (4) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- FEDORA-2011-11600 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2011-11386 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20110819 Re: CVE request: ruby on rails flaws (4) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20110820 Re: CVE request: ruby on rails flaws (4) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20110822 Re: CVE request: ruby on rails flaws (4) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/bfc432574d0b141fd7fe759edfe9b6771dd306bd (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20110822 Re: CVE request: ruby on rails flaws (4) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [rubyonrails-security] 20110816 XSS Vulnerability in the escaping function in Ruby on Rails (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/8/16/ann-rails-3-1-0-rc6 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-9fh3-vh3h-q4g3 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .