CVE-2014-0081
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.
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
- 4.0% (91th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2017-0269)
- Published
- February 20, 2014
- NVD last modified
- June 17, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2017-0269 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- opensuse / opensuse
- opensuse project / opensuse
- redhat / cloudforms
- redhat / enterprise linux
- rubyonrails / rails
- rubyonrails / rails
- rubyonrails / rails
- rubyonrails / rails
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- rubyonrails / rails
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- rubyonrails / rails
- rubyonrails / rails
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- rubyonrails / rails
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- rubyonrails / rails
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- rubyonrails / rails
- rubyonrails / rails
- rubyonrails / rails
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References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00081.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/18/8(Third Party Advisory)
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0215.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0306.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/57376(Permissions Required)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65647(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029782(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=rubyonrails-security/tfp6gZCtzr4/j8LUHmu7fIEJ(Third Party Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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