CVE-2012-6684
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the RedCloth library 4.2.9 for Ruby and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a javascript: URI.
02 Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the RedCloth library 4.2.9 for Ruby and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a javascript: URI.
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
- 2.25% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 82.3% 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
- 2015-01-08 01:00Z11 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 21:36Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2015-01-05
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- 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
- 42dcaaf063d0b409d90da9c5257b8c89588131f66a0973dc860b517a9a5fb486
05 Affected products
06 References
- co3k.orghttp://co3k.org/blog/redcloth-unfixed-xss-en
- jgarber.lighthouseapp.comhttp://jgarber.lighthouseapp.com/projects/13054-redcloth/tickets/243-xss
- seclists.org20141211 RedCloth contains unfixed XSS vulnerability for 9 yearshttp://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Dec/50
- gist.github.comhttps://gist.github.com/co3k/75b3cb416c342aa1414c
- www.debian.orgDSA-3168http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3168
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- ruby-redcloth Fixed in 4.2.9-4
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- ruby-redcloth Fixed in 4.2.9-4
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- ruby-redcloth Fixed in 4.2.9-4
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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