4.3

CVE-2012-3465: rubyonrails rails Cross-site Scripting

CVSS: 4.3v2.0MediumModified
AliasesDEBIAN-CVE-2012-3465GHSA-7g65-ghrg-hpf5
Published 10-08-2012Last modified 06-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2012-3465 is a medium (CVSS 4.3) Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in rubyonrails rails. EPSS estimates a 1.98% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 80.2% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
18/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
4.3/10
010
Medium · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
1.98%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 2
DSA-2655-1RHSA-2013:0582

Timeline

  1. 10-08-2012
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 06-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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.

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

1.98%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

80%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 1.98% on 20-09-2026

20-09-202620-10-2026
EPSS score
1.98%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Rubyonrails2 products
  • rails0.9.1 | 0.9.2 | 0.9.3 | 0.9.4 | 0.9.4.1 | 0.10.0 | 0.10.1 | 0.11.0 | 0.11.1 | 0.12.0 | 0.12.1 | 0.13.0 | 0.13.1 | 0.14.1 | 0.14.2 | 0.14.3 | 0.14.4 | 1.0.0 | 1.1.0 | 1.1.1 | 1.1.2 | 1.1.3 | 1.1.4 | 1.1.5 | 1.1.6 | 1.2.0 | 1.2.1 | 1.2.2 | 1.2.3 | 1.2.4 | 1.2.5 | 1.2.6 | 1.9.5 | 2.0.0 | 2.0.0:rc1 | 2.0.0:rc2 | 2.0.1 | 2.0.2 | 2.0.4 | 2.1.0 | 2.1.1 | 2.1.2 | 2.2.0 | 2.2.1 | 2.2.2 | 2.3.2 | 2.3.3 | 2.3.4 | 2.3.9 | 2.3.10 | 2.3.11 | 2.3.12 | 3.0.0 | 3.0.0:beta | 3.0.0:beta2 | 3.0.0:beta3 | 3.0.0:beta4 | 3.0.0:rc | 3.0.0:rc2 | 3.0.1 | 3.0.1:pre | 3.0.2 | 3.0.2:pre | 3.0.3 | 3.0.4:rc1 | 3.0.5 | 3.0.5:rc1 | 3.0.6 | 3.0.6:rc1 | 3.0.6:rc2 | 3.0.7 | 3.0.7:rc1 | 3.0.7:rc2 | 3.0.8 | 3.0.8:rc1 | 3.0.8:rc2 | 3.0.8:rc3 | 3.0.8:rc4 | 3.0.9 | 3.0.9:rc1 | 3.0.9:rc2 | 3.0.9:rc3 | 3.0.9:rc4 | 3.0.9:rc5 | 3.0.10 | 3.0.10:rc1 | 3.0.11 | 3.0.12 | 3.0.12:rc1 | 3.0.13 | 3.0.13:rc1 | 3.0.14 | 3.1.0 | 3.1.0:beta1 | 3.1.0:rc1 | 3.1.0:rc2 | 3.1.0:rc3 | 3.1.0:rc4 | 3.1.0:rc5 | 3.1.0:rc6 | 3.1.0:rc7 | 3.1.0:rc8 | 3.1.1 | 3.1.1:rc1 | 3.1.1:rc2 | 3.1.1:rc3 | 3.1.2 | 3.1.2:rc1 | 3.1.2:rc2 | 3.1.3 | 3.1.4 | 3.1.4:rc1 | 3.1.5 | 3.1.5:rc1 | 3.1.6 | 3.1.7 | 3.2.0 | 3.2.0:rc1 | 3.2.0:rc2 | 3.2.1 | 3.2.2 | 3.2.2:rc1 | 3.2.3 | 3.2.3:rc1 | 3.2.3:rc2 | 3.2.4 | 3.2.4:rc1 | 3.2.5 | 3.2.6 | 3.2.7
  • ruby_on_rails≤ 3.0.16 | 0.5.0 | 0.5.5 | 0.5.6 | 0.5.7 | 0.6.0 | 0.6.5 | 0.7.0 | 0.8.0 | 0.8.5 | 0.9.0 | 3.0.4
Debian1 product
  • rails< 2.3.14.1
RubyGems1 product
  • actionpack≥ 3.0.0.beta, < 3.0.17 | ≥ 3.1.0, < 3.1.8 | ≥ 3.2.0, < 3.2.8 | < 2.3.16

3 vendors · 4 products

References

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