CVE-2011-2932
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3EPSS 2.5%EU EUVD
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/output_safety.rb in Ruby on Rails 2.x before 2.3.13, 3.0.x before 3.0.10, and 3.1.x before 3.1.0.rc5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a malformed Unicode string, related to a "UTF-8 escaping vulnerability."
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-79
- EPSS score
- 2.5% (85th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2017-0203)
- Published
- August 29, 2011
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2017-0203 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- rubyonrails / rails
- rubyonrails / rails
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References
- http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/f1d2749773db9f21?dmode=source&output=gplain(Patch)
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/065114.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/065189.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/065212.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/45917
- http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/8/16/ann-rails-3-1-0-rc6(Patch)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/17/1(Patch)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/19/11(Patch)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/20/1(Patch)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/22/13(Patch)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/22/14
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/22/5(Patch)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=731435(Patch)
- https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/bfc432574d0b141fd7fe759edfe9b6771dd306bd(Patch)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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