CVE-2012-3464
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/output_safety.rb in Ruby on Rails before 3.0.17, 3.1.x before 3.1.8, and 3.2.x before 3.2.8 might allow
02 Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/output_safety.rb in Ruby on Rails before 3.0.17, 3.1.x before 3.1.8, and 3.2.x before 3.2.8 might allow
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
- 2.56% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 84.8% 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
- 2012-08-10 10:00Z14 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 20:05Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2012-06-14
- 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
- a0bfecf5368d0cf17397ed02a3ae7238a76b086497dc97526208d1773b47cb73
05 Affected products
06 References
- weblog.rubyonrails.orghttp://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2012/8/9/ann-rails-3-2-8-has-been-released/
- secunia.com50694http://secunia.com/advisories/50694
- rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2013:0154http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0154.html
- groups.google.com[rubyonrails-security] 20120810 Potential XSS Vulnerability in Ruby on Railshttps://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/8f1bbe1cef8c6caf?dmode=source&output=gplain
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- rails Fixed in 2.3.14.1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- rails Fixed in 2.3.14.1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- rails Fixed in 2.3.14.1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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