PT-2013-2191 · Ruby+2 · Rdoc+3

Evgeny Ermakov · Published 2013-03-01 · Updated 2025-09-29 · CVE-2013-0256

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 RDoc versions 2.3.0 through 3.12 RDoc versions 4.x before 4.0.0.preview2.1

Description The issue allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a crafted URL, due to improper document generation by darkfish.js in RDoc.

Recommendations For RDoc versions 2.3.0 through 3.12, update to a version outside of this range to resolve the issue. For RDoc versions 4.x before 4.0.0.preview2.1, update to version 4.0.0.preview2.1 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

ALSA-2025_16880

ALT-PU-2016-2061

CVE-2013-0256

DLA-235-1

GHSA-V2R9-C84J-V7XM

RHSA-2013:0701

RHSA-2013:0728

SUSE-SU-2013_0384-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Rdoc

Ruby

Suse

References · 19

• 🔥 https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rdoc/CVE-2013-0256.yml · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-v2r9-c84j-v7xm · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0548.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0701.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-0256 · Security Note
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0728.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/02/06/rdoc-xss-cve-2013-0256 · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0686.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-02/msg00048.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00015.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1733-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/rdoc/rdoc/commit/ffa87887ee0517793df7541629a470e331f9fe60 · Note
• https://github.com/rdoc/rdoc · Note
• http://blog.segment7.net/2013/02/06/rdoc-xss-vulnerability-cve-2013-0256-releases-3-9-5-3-12-1-4-0-0-rc-2 · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=907820 · Note