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    CVE-2011-2932

    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."

    Published:Aug 29, 2011
    Last Modified:Apr 11, 2025
    EPS:Aug 29, 2011
    EPSS Score:0.00813
    CVSS Score:4.3

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Rubyonrails
    Product
    Rails
    Vendor
    Rubyonrails
    Product
    Ruby On Rails

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

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    References

    http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/f1d2749773db9f21?dmode=source&output=gplain
    http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/065114.html
    http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/065189.html
    http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/065212.html
    http://secunia.com/advisories/45917
    http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/8/16/ann-rails-3-1-0-rc6
    http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/17/1
    http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/19/11
    http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/20/1
    http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/22/13
    http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/22/14
    http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/22/5
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=731435
    https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/bfc432574d0b141fd7fe759edfe9b6771dd306bd
    http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/f1d2749773db9f21?dmode=source&output=gplain
    http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/065114.html
    http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/065189.html
    http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/065212.html
    http://secunia.com/advisories/45917
    http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/8/16/ann-rails-3-1-0-rc6
    http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/17/1
    http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/19/11
    http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/20/1
    http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/22/13
    http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/22/14
    http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/22/5
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=731435
    https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/bfc432574d0b141fd7fe759edfe9b6771dd306bd

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
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    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High