PT-2012-4734 · Ruby+1 · Ruby On Rails+1

Koz + 1 · Published 2012-08-10 · Updated 2019-08-08 · CVE-2012-3464

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 prior to 2.3.16 Ruby on Rails versions 3.0.x through 3.0.16 Ruby on Rails versions 3.1.x through 3.1.7 Ruby on Rails versions 3.2.x through 3.2.7

Description A cross-site scripting (XSS) issue might allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving a ' (quote) character. This is due to a vulnerability in the activesupport/lib/active support/core ext/string/output safety.rb file.

Recommendations For Ruby on Rails versions prior to 2.3.16, update to version 2.3.16 or later. For Ruby on Rails versions 3.0.x through 3.0.16, update to version 3.0.17 or later. For Ruby on Rails versions 3.1.x through 3.1.7, update to version 3.1.8 or later. For Ruby on Rails versions 3.2.x through 3.2.7, update to version 3.2.8 or later.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-3464

DSA-2655-1

GHSA-H835-75HW-PJ89

RHSA-2013:0582

SUSE-SU-2013_0194-1

SUSE-SU-2013_0208-1

SUSE-SU-2013_0209-1

Affected Products

Ruby On Rails

Suse

References · 17

• 🔥 https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/activesupport/CVE-2012-3464.yml · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-3464 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-3464 · Vendor Advisory
• http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2012/8/9/ann-rails-3-2-8-has-been-released · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2012-3464 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2012-3464 · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0154.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-h835-75hw-pj89 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/rails/rails · Note
• https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/d549df7133f2b0bad8112890d478c33e990e12bc · Note
• https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/780a718723cf87b49cfe204d355948c4e0932d23 · Note
• https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/7215 · Note
• https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/28f2c6f4037081da0a82104a3f473165ed4ed2ce · Note
• https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/d0c9759d3aeb6327d68dd6c0de0fe2fed4e3c870 · Note
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-h835-75hw-pj89 · Note