CVE-2012-3465
EPSS 0.33%actionpack Cross-site Scripting vulnerability
Published: 10/24/2017Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/sanitize_helper.rb in the strip_tags helper in Ruby on Rails before 3.0.17, 3.1.x before 3.1.8, and 3.2.x before 3.2.8 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via malformed HTML markup.
Affected packages (2)
- Debian/railsfrom 0, < 2.3.14.1
- RubyGems/actionpack>= 3.0.0.beta, < 3.0.17
References (8)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-3465
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-3465
- PATCHhttps://github.com/rails/rails
- WEBhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0154.html
- WEBhttps://github.com/rails/rails/commit/cf48c9c7dcbef8543171f7f7de8d3d9a16b58e77
- WEBhttps://github.com/rails/rails/commit/e91e4e8bbee12ce1496bf384c04da6be296b687a
- WEBhttps://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/7fbb5392d4d282b5?dmode=source&output=gplain
- WEBhttp://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2012/8/9/ann-rails-3-2-8-has-been-released