CVE-2012-1098

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2012-03-01
CWE:
CWE-79
Bugzilla:
799275: CVE-2012-1098 rubygem-activesupport: XSS in SafeBuffer#[] (unescaped safe buffers can be marked as safe)

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2012-1098 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 4.3
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact None

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1 rubygem-activesupport Will not fix
Red Hat CloudForms Tools 1 rubygem-activesupport Will not fix

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