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CVE-2011-2197

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Publication date:
30/06/2011
Last modified:
11/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.30 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): None

Base Score 2.0
4.30
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.0.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.0.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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