National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-2197

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/6/8/potential-xss-vulnerability-in-ruby-on-rails-applications

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/6/8/potential-xss-vulnerability-in-ruby-on-rails-applications

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20110613 Re: CVE Request: Ruby on Rails 3/rails_xss XSS

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/13/9

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20110609 CVE Request: Ruby on Rails 3/rails_xss XSS

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/09/2

External Source: MLIST

Name: [rubyonrails-security] 20110607 Potential XSS Vulnerability in Ruby on Rails Applications

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/663b600d4471e0d4?dmode=source&output=gplain

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 44789

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/44789

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2011-8494

Hyperlink:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/062090.html

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2011-8580

Hyperlink:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-July/062514.html