CVE-2011-0446
EPSS 0.67%rails - several vulnerabilities
Published: 10/24/2017Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the mail_to helper in Ruby on Rails before 2.3.11, and 3.x before 3.0.4, when javascript encoding is used, allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted (1) name or (2) email value.
Affected packages (4)
- Debian/railsfrom 0, < 2.3.11-0.1
- Debian/railsfrom 0, < 2.3.5-1.2+squeeze0.1
- RubyGems/actionpackfrom 0, < 2.3.11
- RubyGems/actionviewfrom 0, < 2.3.11
References (17)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-0446
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-0446
- PATCHhttps://github.com/rails/rails
- WEBhttp://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/365b8a23b76a6b4a?dmode=source&output=gplain
- WEBhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/057650.html
- WEBhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055074.html
- WEBhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055088.html
- WEBhttps://github.com/rails/rails/commit/abe97736b8316f1b714cac56c115c0779aa73217
- WEBhttps://github.com/rails/rails/commit/e3dd2107c57a8efaaea5d61cf8da65f7444760b2
- WEBhttps://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/actionpack/CVE-2011-0446.yml
- WEBhttps://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/actionview/CVE-2011-0446.yml
- WEBhttps://groups.google.com/g/rubyonrails-security/c/8CpI7egxX4E/m/SmtqtyOKWzYJ
- WEBhttps://web.archive.org/web/20111225083933/http://secunia.com/advisories/43274
- WEBhttps://web.archive.org/web/20111225083933/http://secunia.com/advisories/43666
- WEBhttps://web.archive.org/web/20120527023027/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46291
- WEBhttps://web.archive.org/web/20200812054342/http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025064
- WEBhttp://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2247