CVE-2011-2932

N/A Unknown
Published: August 29, 2011 Modified: April 29, 2026
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Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/output_safety.rb in Ruby on Rails 2.x before 2.3.13, 3.0.x before 3.0.10, and 3.1.x before 3.1.0.rc5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a malformed Unicode string, related to a "UTF-8 escaping vulnerability."

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory
http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/f1d2749773db9f21?dmode=source&output=gplain
Source: secalert@redhat.com
Patch
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/065114.html
Source: secalert@redhat.com
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/065189.html
Source: secalert@redhat.com
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/065212.html
Source: secalert@redhat.com
http://secunia.com/advisories/45917
Source: secalert@redhat.com
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/8/16/ann-rails-3-1-0-rc6
Source: secalert@redhat.com
Patch
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/17/1
Source: secalert@redhat.com
Patch
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/19/11
Source: secalert@redhat.com
Patch
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/20/1
Source: secalert@redhat.com
Patch
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/22/13
Source: secalert@redhat.com
Patch
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/22/14
Source: secalert@redhat.com
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/22/5
Source: secalert@redhat.com
Patch
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=731435
Source: secalert@redhat.com
Patch
https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/bfc432574d0b141fd7fe759edfe9b6771dd306bd
Source: secalert@redhat.com
Patch
http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/f1d2749773db9f21?dmode=source&output=gplain
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Patch
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/065114.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/065189.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/065212.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://secunia.com/advisories/45917
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/8/16/ann-rails-3-1-0-rc6
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Patch
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/17/1
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Patch
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/19/11
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Patch
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/20/1
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Patch
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/22/13
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Patch
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/22/14
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/22/5
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Patch
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=731435
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Patch
https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/bfc432574d0b141fd7fe759edfe9b6771dd306bd
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Patch

28 reference(s) from NVD

Quick Stats

CVSS v3 Score
N/A / 10.0
EPSS (Exploit Probability)
2.5%
83th percentile
Exploitation Status
Not in CISA KEV

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-79

Affected Vendors

rubyonrails

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