CVE-2011-2197

Published Jun 30, 2011 CVSS 2.0 · 4.3 Medium EPSS 2.0% KEV · Not listed
Description
The cross-site scripting (XSS) prevention feature in Ruby on Rails 2.x before 2.3.12, 3.0.x before 3.0.8, and 3.1.x before 3.1.0.rc2 does not properly handle mutation of safe buffers, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct XSS attacks via crafted strings to an application that uses a problematic string method, as demonstrated by the sub method.

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-0312 The cross-site scripting (XSS) prevention feature in Ruby on Rails 2.x before 2.3.12, 3.0.x before 3.0.8, and 3.1.x before 3.1.0.rc2 does not properly handle mutation of safe buffers, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct XSS attacks via crafted strings to an application that uses a problematic string method, as demonstrated by the sub method.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-v9v4-7jp6-8c73 rails Cross-site Scripting vulnerability
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
redhat
Published
Updated
Aug 6, 2024, 10:53 PM
Reserved
May 31, 2011, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Jun 30, 2011, 3:55 PM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 11:30 PM