CVE-2012-1098

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-03-13 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Ruby on Rails 3.0.x before 3.0.12, 3.1.x before 3.1.4, and 3.2.x before 3.2.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving a SafeBuffer object that is manipulated through certain methods.

Affected products

Ruby on Rails: 3.0.0, 3.0.0-beta, 3.0.0-beta2, 3.0.0-beta3, 3.0.0-beta4, 3.0.0-rc (+54)
rubyonrails Ruby On Rails: 3.0.4

References

http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/1c2e01a5e42722c9?dmode=source&output=gplain
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-March/075675.html
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2012/3/1/ann-rails-3-0-12-has-been-released
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/02/6
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/03/1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=799275
http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/1c2e01a5e42722c9?dmode=source&output=gplain
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-March/075675.html
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2012/3/1/ann-rails-3-0-12-has-been-released
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/02/6
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/03/1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=799275

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