CVE-2012-1098
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Ruby on Rails 3.0.x before 3.0.12, 3.1.x before 3.1.4, and 3.2.x before 3.2.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors
02 Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Ruby on Rails 3.0.x before 3.0.12, 3.1.x before 3.1.4, and 3.2.x before 3.2.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 2.64% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 85.5% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2012-03-13 10:00Z14 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 18:45Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2012-02-14
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- def6139e1551f64314409d3238e895960de64a9b82d9ff2a7505bd68db9237c0
05 Affected products
06 References
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2012-3321http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-March/075675.html
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20120302 Re: CVE Request -- Ruby on Rails (v3.0.12) / rubygem-actionpack: Two XSS flawshttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/03/1
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=799275
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20120302 CVE Request -- Ruby on Rails (v3.0.12) / rubygem-actionpack: Two XSS flawshttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/02/6
- groups.google.com[rubyonrails-security] 20120301 Possible XSS Security Vulnerability in SafeBuffer#[]http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/1c2e01a5e42722c9?dmode=source&output=gplain
- weblog.rubyonrails.orghttp://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2012/3/1/ann-rails-3-0-12-has-been-released
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- rails Fixed in 2.3.14
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- rails Fixed in 2.3.14
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- rails Fixed in 2.3.14
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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