National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-1098

Overview

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Ruby on Rails 3.0.x before 3.0.12, 3.1.x before 3.1.4, and 3.2.x before 3.2.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving a SafeBuffer object that is manipulated through certain methods.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=799275

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=799275

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20120302 Re: CVE Request -- Ruby on Rails (v3.0.12) / rubygem-actionpack: Two XSS flaws

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/03/1

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20120302 CVE Request -- Ruby on Rails (v3.0.12) / rubygem-actionpack: Two XSS flaws

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/02/6

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2012/3/1/ann-rails-3-0-12-has-been-released

Hyperlink:http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2012/3/1/ann-rails-3-0-12-has-been-released

External Source: MLIST

Name: [rubyonrails-security] 20120301 Possible XSS Security Vulnerability in SafeBuffer#[]

Hyperlink:http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/1c2e01a5e42722c9?dmode=source&output=gplain