Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/output_safety.rb in Ruby on Rails 2.x 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 malformed Unicode string, related to a "UTF-8 escaping vulnerability."

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201412-28 (Ruby on Rails: Multiple vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Ruby on Rails. Please       review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
  Impact :

    A remote attacker could execute arbitrary code or cause a Denial of       Service condition. Furthermore, a remote attacker may be able to execute       arbitrary SQL commands, change parameter names for form inputs and make       changes to arbitrary records in the system, bypass intended access       restrictions, render arbitrary views, inject arbitrary web script or       HTML, or conduct cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

Several cross-site-scripting and denial of service vulnerabilities were discovered in Ruby on Rails, a Ruby framework for web application development.

fix for BZ #731435

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Update to Rails 3.0.10 which fixes several security bugs.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
79981	GLSA-201412-28 : Ruby on Rails: Multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	critical
65727	Debian DSA-2655-1 : rails - several vulnerabilities	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium
56102	Fedora 14 : rubygem-activesupport-2.3.8-4.fc14 (2011-11600)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
56100	Fedora 15 : rubygem-activesupport-3.0.5-4.fc15 (2011-11579)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
56097	Fedora 16 : rubygem-actionmailer-3.0.10-1.fc16 / rubygem-actionpack-3.0.10-1.fc16 / etc (2011-11386)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high

Detections

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CVE-2011-2932

medium

Tenable Plugins

critical

medium

medium

medium

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