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Advisory details: ruby_advisory_db / gems/activesupport/CVE-2011-2197
Advisory ID ruby_advisory_db/gems/activesupport/CVE-2011-2197
Aliases CVE-2011-2197
GHSA-v9v4-7jp6-8c73
Summary Potential XSS Vulnerability in Ruby on Rails Applications The cross-site scripting (XSS) prevention feature in Ruby on Rails 2.x before 2.3.12, 3.0.x before 3.0.8, and 3.1.x before 3.1.0.rc2 does not properly handle mutation of safe buffers, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct XSS attacks via crafted strings to an application that uses a problematic string method, as demonstrated by the sub method.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 0.0
Risk
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Introduced and Fixed Package Commit Patches Package Commit Patches Details
Weaknesses (0)
There are no known CWE.
System Score Found at
cvssv2 4.3

No exploits are available.

No EPSS data available for this advisory.

Patch URL
There are no known patches.

There are no known vectors.

There are no SSVC decisions available.