PT-2012-4735 · Ruby+1 · Ruby On Rails+1

Published 2012-08-10 · Updated 2019-08-08 · CVE-2012-3465

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 exists in the strip tags helper in actionpack/lib/action view/helpers/sanitize helper.rb, allowing remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via malformed HTML markup.

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.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-3465

DSA-2655-1

GHSA-7G65-GHRG-HPF5

RHSA-2013:0582

SUSE-SU-2012_1367-1

Affected Products

Ruby On Rails

Suse

References · 12

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2012-3465 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-3465 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2012-3465 · Vendor Advisory
• http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2012/8/9/ann-rails-3-2-8-has-been-released · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-3465 · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0154.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-7g65-ghrg-hpf5 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/rails/rails · Note
• https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/cf48c9c7dcbef8543171f7f7de8d3d9a16b58e77 · Note
• https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/e91e4e8bbee12ce1496bf384c04da6be296b687a · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/50694 · Note
• https://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/7fbb5392d4d282b5?dmode=source&output=gplain · Note