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medium 4.3

CVE-2014-0081 json

Rails vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting

published 12y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-m46p-ggm5-5j83 , EUVD-2017-0269

cvss
4.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.0%
EPSS 4.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 90%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • rubygems rails 3.2.17, 4.0.3
  • rubygems actionpack 3.2.17, 4.0.3
  • rails Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.3.14.1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2014-0081

  • cfme cloudforms managementengine 5 5.2.2.3-1.el6cf
  • cfme-lib cloudforms managementengine 5 5.2.2.3-1.el6cf
  • ruby193-ruby cloudforms managementengine 5 1.9.3.448-40.1.el6
  • cfme-appliance cloudforms managementengine 5 5.2.2.3-1.el6cf
  • ruby193-ruby-irb cloudforms managementengine 5 1.9.3.448-40.1.el6
  • ruby193-rubygems cloudforms managementengine 5 1.8.23-40.1.el6
  • mingw32-cfme-host cloudforms managementengine 5 5.2.2.3-1.el6cf
  • ruby193-ruby-libs cloudforms managementengine 5 1.9.3.448-40.1.el6

red hat advisories RHSA-2014:0215RHSA-2014:0306

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Vendor advisories

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red hat product security vex CVE-2014-0081 updated cvss 4.3

rubygem-actionpack: number_to_currency, number_to_percentage and number_to_human XSS vulnerability

  • Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 1 ruby193-rubygem-actionpack
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 3 ruby193-rubygem-actionpack Red Hat OpenStack Platform 4 ruby193-rubygem-actionpack Red Hat Satellite 6 ruby193-rubygem-actionpack Red Hat Software Collections ror40-rubygem-actionpack
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager ruby193-rubygem-actionpack
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Management Engine cfme 5.2.2.3-1.el6cf, cfme-lib 5.2.2.3-1.el6cf, cfme-appliance 5.2.2.3-1.el6cf, ruby193-ruby 1.9.3.448-40.1.el6, ruby193-rubygems 1.8.23-40.1.el6, mingw32-cfme-host 5.2.2.3-1.el6cf, +13 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2014:0215
  • Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) ruby193-rubygem-actionpack 3.2.8-5.3.el6 Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) ruby193-rubygem-actionpack 3.2.8-5.3.el6
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2014:0306

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

4.03% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 90% 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 rails
>=3.0.0, <3.2.17
>=4.0.0, <4.0.3
3.2.17
4.0.3
rubygems actionpack
>=3.0.0, <3.2.17
>=4.0.0, <4.0.3
3.2.17
4.0.3

Classification

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