CVE-2011-2197

Description

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.

References

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

http://secunia.com/advisories/44789

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

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

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

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

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3