CVE-2011-2932

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."

How to fix CVE-2011-2932

To remediate CVE-2011-2932, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.

• Debian/rails—upgrade to 2.3.14 or later
• Debian/rails—upgrade to 2.3.5-1.2+squeeze8 or later
• —upgrade to 2.3.13 or later

Is CVE-2011-2932 being exploited?

Low — EPSS is 0.8%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.

Affected packages (3)

• from 0, < 2.3.14
• from 0, < 2.3.5-1.2+squeeze8
• >= 2.0.0, < 2.3.13

References (17)

• ADVISORYnvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-2932
• ADVISORYsecurity-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-2932
• PATCHgithub.com/rails/rails
• WEBgroups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/f1d2749773db9f21?dmode=source&output=gplain