PT-2011-4929 · Ruby · Ruby On Rails

Jan Lieskovsky · Published 2011-11-28 · Updated 2019-08-08 · CVE-2011-4319

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Ruby on Rails versions 3.0.x through 3.0.10 Ruby on Rails versions 3.1.x through 3.1.1 Ruby on Rails 2.3.x (with rails xss plugin)

Description A cross-site scripting (XSS) issue exists due to a flaw in the i18n translations helper method, allowing remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via specific vectors related to translations strings.

Recommendations For Ruby on Rails versions 3.0.x through 3.0.10, update to version 3.0.11 or later. For Ruby on Rails versions 3.1.x through 3.1.1, update to version 3.1.2 or later. For Ruby on Rails 2.3.x with the rails xss plugin, consider removing or disabling the plugin until a patch is available.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2011-4319

GHSA-XXR8-833V-C7WC

Affected Products

Ruby On Rails

References · 18

• 🔥 https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/actionpack/CVE-2011-4319.yml · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-xxr8-833v-c7wc · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-4319 · Security Note
• https://github.com/rails/rails · Note
• https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/2d5b105d4bcb652550dda8b5613376d1b8beb70c · Note
• https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/ba2d85012088fd0db0fab98b2e512c77c83cbade · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/18/8 · Note
• http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/11/18/rails-3-1-2-has-been-released · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1026342 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/71364 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/50722 · Note
• https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rubyonrails-security/K2HXD7c8fMU · Note
• http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/c65c24fbc4b6dd82?dmode=source&output=gplain · Note
• http://osvdb.org/77199 · Note
• http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/11/18/rails-3-0-11-has-been-released · Note