CVE-2011-2197 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2011-2197

The cross-site scripting (XSS) prevention feature in Ruby on Rails...

Vulnerability Description

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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

rubyonrails

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Affected Software

rails, ruby on rails
Vulnerable Versions:
2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.4, 2.1.0, 2.1.1, 2.1.2, 2.2.0, 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.3.2, 2.3.3, 2.3.4, 2.3.9, 2.3.10, 2.3.11, 3.0.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.0.3, 3.0.4, 3.0.5, 3.0.6, 3.0.7, 3.0.8, 3.1.0

Timeline

Official Publish: June 30th, 2011
Last Modified: August 6th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

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Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.