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CVE-2012-3464

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-3464 describes a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Ruby on Rails versions prior to 3.0.17, 3.1.8, and 3.2.8, specifically within the activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/output_safety.rb component. This flaw allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML, primarily through vectors involving a single quote character. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating a medium attack complexity and potential for partial integrity impact, with no confidentiality or availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.9.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:0.9.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:0.9.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:0.9.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:0.9.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.9.4.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:0.9.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.57%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
83.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0257 is in the 74th percentile among its peer group of 19,955 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (54)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: rubygem-ruby_parser-0:2.0.4-6.el6op
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Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: rubygem-openshift-origin-auth-remote-user-0:1.0.5-1.el6op
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Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: rubygem-openshift-origin-console-0:1.0.10-1.el6op
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Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: rubygem-openshift-origin-controller-0:1.0.12-1.el6op
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Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: rubygem-openshift-origin-node-0:1.0.11-1.el6op
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: converge-ui-devel-0:1.0.4-1.el6cf
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: puppet-0:2.6.17-2.el6cf
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Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: rubygem-actionpack-1:3.0.10-10.el6cf
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Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: rubygem-activerecord-1:3.0.10-6.el6cf
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Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: rubygem-activesupport-1:3.0.10-4.el6cf
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: rubygem-chunky_png-0:1.2.0-3.el6cf
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: rubygem-compass-0:0.11.5-2.el6cf
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Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: rubygem-compass-960-plugin-0:0.10.4-2.el6cf
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Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: rubygem-delayed_job-0:2.1.4-2.el6cf
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Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: rubygem-ldap_fluff-0:0.1.3-1.el6_3
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Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: rubygem-mail-0:2.3.0-3.el6cf
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Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: rubygem-net-ldap-0:0.1.1-3.el6cf
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Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.1Fixed in: rubygem-actionpack-1:3.0.10-11.el6cf
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Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.1Fixed in: rubygem-activerecord-1:3.0.10-8.el6cf
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Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.1Fixed in: rubygem-activesupport-1:3.0.10-5.el6cf
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: graphviz-0:2.26.0-10.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: openshift-console-0:0.0.16-1.el6op
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Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: openshift-origin-broker-0:1.0.11-1.el6op
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Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: openshift-origin-broker-util-0:1.0.15-1.el6op
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Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: openshift-origin-cartridge-cron-1.4-0:1.0.3-1.el6op
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Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: openshift-origin-cartridge-diy-0.1-0:1.0.3-1.el6op
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Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: openshift-origin-cartridge-haproxy-1.4-0:1.0.4-1.el6op
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Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: openshift-origin-cartridge-jbosseap-6.0-0:1.0.4-1.el6op
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Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: openshift-origin-cartridge-jbossews-1.0-0:1.0.13-1.el6op
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Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: openshift-origin-cartridge-jenkins-1.4-0:1.0.2-1.el6op
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Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: openshift-origin-cartridge-jenkins-client-1.4-0:1.0.2-1.el6op
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Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: openshift-origin-cartridge-mysql-5.1-0:1.0.5-1.el6op
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Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: openshift-origin-cartridge-perl-5.10-0:1.0.3-1.el6op
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Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: openshift-origin-cartridge-php-5.3-0:1.0.5-1.el6op
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Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: openshift-origin-cartridge-postgresql-8.4-0:1.0.3-2.el6op
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Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: openshift-origin-cartridge-ruby-1.8-0:1.0.7-1.el6op
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Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: openshift-origin-cartridge-ruby-1.9-scl-0:1.0.8-1.el6op
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Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: openshift-origin-msg-node-mcollective-0:1.0.3-1.el6op
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: php-0:5.3.3-22.el6
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Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: ruby193-ruby-0:1.9.3.327-25.el6
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Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: ruby193-rubygem-actionpack-1:3.2.8-3.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: ruby193-rubygem-activemodel-0:3.2.8-2.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: ruby193-rubygem-activerecord-1:3.2.8-3.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: ruby193-rubygem-railties-0:3.2.8-2.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: ruby193-rubygem-ruby_parser-0:2.3.1-3.el6op
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: rubygem-actionpack-1:3.0.13-4.el6op
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: rubygem-activemodel-0:3.0.13-3.el6op
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: rubygem-activerecord-1:3.0.13-5.el6op
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: rubygem-bson-0:1.8.1-2.el6op
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: rubygem-mongo-0:1.8.1-2.el6op
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rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: activesupportFixed in: 3.2.8
rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: activesupportFixed in: 3.0.17
rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: activesupportFixed in: 2.3.16
rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: activesupportFixed in: 3.1.8

Vendor Advisories (2)

rubygemsGHSA-h835-75hw-pj89medium

activesupport Cross-site Scripting vulnerability

Oct 24, 2017
redhatCVE-2012-3464Moderate

rubygem-actionpack: potential XSS vulnerability

Aug 9, 2012

References

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-0154.html
secunia.com / advisories/50694
groups.google.com / group/rubyonrails-security/msg/8f1bbe1cef8c6caf
weblog.rubyonrails.org / 2012/8/9/ann-rails-3-2-8-has-been-released
Vendor Advisory