National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-0446

Overview

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the mail_to helper in Ruby on Rails before 2.3.11, and 3.x before 3.0.4, when javascript encoding is used, allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted (1) name or (2) email value.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: MLIST

Name: [rubyonrails-security] 20110209 Potential XSS Problem with mail_to :encode => :javascript

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/365b8a23b76a6b4a?dmode=source&output=gplain

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2011-0877

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0877

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2011-0587

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0587

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1025064

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025064

External Source: BID

Name: 46291

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46291

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-2247

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2247

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 43666

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/43666

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 43274

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/43274

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2011-2138

Hyperlink:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055088.html

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2011-2133

Hyperlink:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055074.html

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2011-4358

Hyperlink:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/057650.html