CVE-2011-2931

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the strip_tags helper in actionpack/lib/action_controller/vendor/html-scanner/html/node.rb in Ruby on Rails before 2.3.13, 3.0.x before 3.0.10, and 3.1.x before 3.1.0.rc5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a tag with an invalid name.

Affected products

• rubyonrails / rails2.0.0 – 2.0.0
• rubyonrails / rails2.0.0 – 2.0.0
• rubyonrails / rails2.0.0 – 2.0.0
• rubyonrails / rails2.0.1 – 2.0.1
• rubyonrails / rails2.0.2 – 2.0.2
• rubyonrails / rails2.0.4 – 2.0.4
• rubyonrails / rails2.1.0 – 2.1.0
• rubyonrails / rails2.1.1 – 2.1.1
• rubyonrails / rails2.1.2 – 2.1.2
• rubyonrails / rails2.2.0 – 2.2.0
• rubyonrails / rails2.2.1 – 2.2.1
• rubyonrails / rails2.2.2 – 2.2.2
• rubyonrails / rails2.3.2 – 2.3.2
• rubyonrails / rails2.3.3 – 2.3.3
• rubyonrails / rails2.3.4 – 2.3.4
• rubyonrails / rails2.3.9 – 2.3.9
• rubyonrails / rails2.3.10 – 2.3.10
• rubyonrails / rails2.3.11 – 2.3.11
• rubyonrails / rails2.3.12 – 2.3.12
• rubyonrails / rails3.0.0 – 3.0.0
• rubyonrails / rails3.0.0 – 3.0.0
• rubyonrails / rails3.0.0 – 3.0.0
• rubyonrails / rails3.0.0 – 3.0.0
• rubyonrails / rails3.0.0 – 3.0.0
• rubyonrails / rails3.0.0 – 3.0.0
• rubyonrails / rails3.0.0 – 3.0.0
• rubyonrails / rails3.0.1 – 3.0.1
• rubyonrails / rails3.0.1 – 3.0.1
• rubyonrails / rails3.0.2 – 3.0.2
• rubyonrails / rails3.0.2 – 3.0.2
• rubyonrails / rails3.0.3 – 3.0.3
• rubyonrails / rails3.0.4 – 3.0.4
• rubyonrails / rails3.0.5 – 3.0.5
• rubyonrails / rails3.0.5 – 3.0.5
• rubyonrails / rails3.0.6 – 3.0.6
• rubyonrails / rails3.0.6 – 3.0.6
• rubyonrails / rails3.0.6 – 3.0.6
• rubyonrails / rails3.0.7 – 3.0.7
• rubyonrails / rails3.0.7 – 3.0.7
• rubyonrails / rails3.0.7 – 3.0.7
• rubyonrails / rails3.0.8 – 3.0.8
• rubyonrails / rails3.0.8 – 3.0.8
• rubyonrails / rails3.0.8 – 3.0.8
• rubyonrails / rails3.0.8 – 3.0.8
• rubyonrails / rails3.0.8 – 3.0.8
• rubyonrails / rails3.0.9 – 3.0.9
• rubyonrails / rails3.0.9 – 3.0.9
• rubyonrails / rails3.0.9 – 3.0.9
• rubyonrails / rails3.0.9 – 3.0.9
• rubyonrails / rails3.0.9 – 3.0.9
• rubyonrails / rails3.0.9 – 3.0.9
• rubyonrails / rails3.0.10 – 3.0.10
• rubyonrails / rails3.1.0 – 3.1.0
• rubyonrails / rails3.1.0 – 3.1.0
• rubyonrails / rails3.1.0 – 3.1.0
• rubyonrails / rails3.1.0 – 3.1.0
• rubyonrails / rails3.1.0 – 3.1.0
• rubyonrails / rails3.1.0 – 3.1.0
• rubyonrails / ruby_on_rails3.0.4 – 3.0.4

References

• MISChttp://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/fd41ab62966e0fd1?dmode=source&output=gplain
• MAILING_LISThttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/17/1
• MAILING_LISThttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/22/13
• MAILING_LISThttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/065212.html
• MAILING_LISThttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/065137.html
• MISChttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=731436
• MAILING_LISThttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/19/11
• VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2301
• VENDOR_ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/45921
• MAILING_LISThttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/20/1
• MAILING_LISThttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/065109.html
• MAILING_LISThttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/22/14
• PATCHhttps://github.com/rails/rails/commit/586a944ddd4d03e66dea1093306147594748037a
• MAILING_LISThttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/22/5
• MISChttp://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/8/16/ann-rails-3-1-0-rc6