CVE-2012-1099

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.5% 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 actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/form_options_helper.rb in the select helper 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 certain generation of OPTION elements within SELECT elements.

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/6fca4f5c47705488?dmode=source&output=gplain
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-March/075675.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-March/075740.html
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2012/3/1/ann-rails-3-0-12-has-been-released
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2466
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=799276
http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/6fca4f5c47705488?dmode=source&output=gplain
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-March/075675.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-March/075740.html
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2012/3/1/ann-rails-3-0-12-has-been-released

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