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Fencer Intel
medium 4.3

CVE-2012-3464 json

activesupport Cross-site Scripting vulnerability

published 2012-08-10 14 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also GHSA-h835-75hw-pj89 , EUVD-2017-0249

cvss
4.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.6%
EPSS 2.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 85%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/output_safety.rb in Ruby on Rails before 3.0.17, 3.1.x before 3.1.8, and 3.2.x before 3.2.8 might allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving a ' (quote) character.

Patch / fix

  • rubygems activesupport 2.3.16, 3.0.17, 3.1.8, 3.2.8
  • rails Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.3.14.1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2012-3464

  • php openshift 1 5.3.3-22.el6
  • graphviz openshift 1 2.26.0-10.el6
  • php-imap openshift 1 5.3.3-22.el6
  • php-bcmath openshift 1 5.3.3-22.el6
  • graphviz-gd openshift 1 2.26.0-10.el6
  • php-process openshift 1 5.3.3-22.el6
  • php-mbstring openshift 1 5.3.3-22.el6
  • ruby193-ruby openshift 1 1.9.3.327-25.el6

red hat advisories RHSA-2013:0582

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2012-3464 updated cvss 4.3

rubygem-actionpack: potential XSS vulnerability

  • Red Hat CloudForms Cloud Engine for RHEL 6 Server puppet 2.6.17-2.el6cf, rubygem-mail 2.3.0-3.el6cf, puppet-server 2.6.17-2.el6cf, rubygem-compass 0.11.5-2.el6cf, rubygem-net-ldap 0.1.1-3.el6cf, rubygem-chunky_png 1.2.0-3.el6cf, +6 more Red Hat CloudForms System Engine for RHEL 6 Server puppet 2.6.17-2.el6cf, rubygem-mail 2.3.0-3.el6cf, puppet-server 2.6.17-2.el6cf, rubygem-compass 0.11.5-2.el6cf, rubygem-net-ldap 0.1.1-3.el6cf, rubygem-chunky_png 1.2.0-3.el6cf, +6 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2012:1542
  • Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise Infrastructure graphviz 2.26.0-10.el6, graphviz-gd 2.26.0-10.el6, rubygem-bson 1.8.1-2.el6op, graphviz-ruby 2.26.0-10.el6, rubygem-mongo 1.8.1-2.el6op, ruby193-ruby 1.9.3.327-25.el6, +25 more Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise JBoss EAP add-on openshift-origin-cartridge-jbosseap-6.0 1.0.4-1.el6op Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise Node php 5.3.3-22.el6, php-imap 5.3.3-22.el6, php-bcmath 5.3.3-22.el6, php-process 5.3.3-22.el6, php-mbstring 5.3.3-22.el6, rubygem-bson 1.8.1-2.el6op, +32 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2013:0582
  • Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager for RHEL 6 Server rubygem-actionpack 3.0.10-11.el6cf, rubygem-activerecord 3.0.10-8.el6cf, rubygem-activesupport 3.0.10-5.el6cf
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2013:0154

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.57% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 85% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
rubygems activesupport
>=3.0.0.beta, <3.0.17
>=3.1.0, <3.1.8
>=3.2.0, <3.2.8
<2.3.16
3.0.17
3.1.8
3.2.8
2.3.16

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation
Technology feeds

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.