CVE-2011-2931

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the strip_tags helper in actionpack/lib/action_controller/vendor/html-scanner/html/node.rb in Ruby on Rails 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 tag with an invalid name.

References

https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/586a944ddd4d03e66dea1093306147594748037a

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=731436

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/22/5

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/22/14

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/22/13

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/20/1

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/19/11

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/17/1

http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2301

http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/8/16/ann-rails-3-1-0-rc6

http://secunia.com/advisories/45921

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/065212.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/065137.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/065109.html

http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/fd41ab62966e0fd1?dmode=source&output=gplain

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3