CVE-2011-2197

mediumpriority · track · 18EPSS 0.020 · 80 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

1.96% (80th) EPSS

CVSS 4.3 · medium

Is it mine?

32 products

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Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd · osv

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

The cross-site scripting (XSS) prevention feature in Ruby on Rails 2.x before 2.3.12, 3.0.x before 3.0.8, and 3.1.x before 3.1.0.rc2 does not properly handle mutation of safe buffers, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct XSS attacks via crafted strings to an application that uses a problematic string method, as demonstrated by the sub method.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

4.3

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · low–medium · 3.7–4.3

v2.04.3mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8.6 · impact 2.9

v2.03.7lowAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-79USprimaryCWE-79US

affected products (32)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
rubyonrails rails= 2.0.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
rubyonrails rails= 2.0.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
rubyonrails rails= 2.0.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
rubyonrails rails= 2.0.4nvdUScpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
rubyonrails rails= 2.1.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
rubyonrails rails= 2.1.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
rubyonrails rails= 2.1.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
rubyonrails rails= 2.2.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
rubyonrails rails= 2.2.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
rubyonrails rails= 2.2.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
rubyonrails rails= 2.3.10nvdUScpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
rubyonrails rails= 2.3.11nvdUScpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
rubyonrails rails= 2.3.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
rubyonrails rails= 2.3.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
rubyonrails rails= 2.3.4nvdUScpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
rubyonrails rails= 2.3.9nvdUScpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
rubyonrails rails= 3.0.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
rubyonrails rails= 3.0.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
rubyonrails rails= 3.0.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-v9v4-7jp6-8c73rails Cross-site Scripting vulnerability2017-10-24ghsa · osvUS
The cross-site scripting (XSS) prevention feature in Ruby on Rails 2.x before 2.3.12, 3.0.x before 3.0.8, and 3.1.x before 3.1.0.rc2 does not properly handle mutation of safe buffers, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct XSS attacks via crafted strings to an application that uses a problematic string method, as demonstrated by the sub method.

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2011-06-30modified 2026-06-16

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references (21)

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