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CVE-2014-0081

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2014-02-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in actionview/lib/action_view/helpers/number_helper.rb in Ruby on Rails before 3.2.17, 4.0.x before 4.0.3, and 4.1.x before 4.1.0.beta2 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) format, (2) negative_format, or (3) units parameter to the (a) number_to_currency, (b) number_to_percentage, or (c) number_to_human helper.

Affected products

• Opensuse: 13.1
• Opensuse Project Opensuse: 12.3
• CloudForms: 3.0
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 6.0
• Ruby on Rails: 0.9.1, 0.9.2, 0.9.3, 0.9.4, 0.9.4.1, 0.10.0 (+159)
• rubyonrails Ruby On Rails: through 3.2.16; 0.5.0, 0.5.5, 0.5.6, 0.5.7, 0.6.0, 0.6.5 (+10)

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00081.html
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/18/8
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0215.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0306.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/57376
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65647
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029782
• https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=rubyonrails-security/tfp6gZCtzr4/j8LUHmu7fIEJ
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00081.html
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/18/8
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0215.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0306.html

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