CVE-2012-3463

medium

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/form_tag_helper.rb in Ruby on Rails 3.x before 3.0.17, 3.1.x before 3.1.8, and 3.2.x before 3.2.8 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the prompt field to the select_tag helper.

References

https://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/961e18e514527078?dmode=source&output=gplain

http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2012/8/9/ann-rails-3-2-8-has-been-released/

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0154.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2012-08-10

Updated: 2019-08-08

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium