CVE-2012-3465

19

FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-3465 is a Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability found in the strip_tags helper within Ruby on Rails versions before 3.0.17, 3.1.8, and 3.2.8. This flaw allows remote attackers to inject malicious web script or HTML through malformed HTML input. With a CVSS score of 4.3, it is a medium-severity vulnerability requiring medium attack complexity and resulting in partial integrity impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(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

1.98%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

78.4%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-26

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0198 is in the 63rd 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

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: rubygem-openshift-origin-auth-remote-user-0:1.0.5-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: rubygem-openshift-origin-console-0:1.0.10-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: rubygem-openshift-origin-controller-0:1.0.12-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: rubygem-openshift-origin-node-0:1.0.11-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: converge-ui-devel-0:1.0.4-1.el6cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: puppet-0:2.6.17-2.el6cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: rubygem-actionpack-1:3.0.10-10.el6cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: rubygem-activerecord-1:3.0.10-6.el6cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: rubygem-activesupport-1:3.0.10-4.el6cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: rubygem-chunky_png-0:1.2.0-3.el6cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: rubygem-compass-0:0.11.5-2.el6cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: rubygem-compass-960-plugin-0:0.10.4-2.el6cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: rubygem-delayed_job-0:2.1.4-2.el6cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: rubygem-ldap_fluff-0:0.1.3-1.el6_3

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: rubygem-mail-0:2.3.0-3.el6cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: rubygem-net-ldap-0:0.1.1-3.el6cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.1Fixed in: rubygem-actionpack-1:3.0.10-11.el6cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.1Fixed in: rubygem-activerecord-1:3.0.10-8.el6cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.1Fixed in: rubygem-activesupport-1:3.0.10-5.el6cf

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: graphviz-0:2.26.0-10.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: openshift-console-0:0.0.16-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: openshift-origin-broker-0:1.0.11-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

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

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: openshift-origin-cartridge-diy-0.1-0:1.0.3-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: openshift-origin-cartridge-haproxy-1.4-0:1.0.4-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: openshift-origin-cartridge-jbosseap-6.0-0:1.0.4-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

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

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: openshift-origin-cartridge-jenkins-client-1.4-0:1.0.2-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

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

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: openshift-origin-cartridge-ruby-1.9-scl-0:1.0.8-1.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: openshift-origin-msg-node-mcollective-0:1.0.3-1.el6op

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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

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: ruby193-rubygem-actionpack-1:3.2.8-3.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: ruby193-rubygem-activemodel-0:3.2.8-2.el6

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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Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: ruby193-rubygem-railties-0:3.2.8-2.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: ruby193-rubygem-ruby_parser-0:2.3.1-3.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: rubygem-actionpack-1:3.0.13-4.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: rubygem-activemodel-0:3.0.13-3.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: rubygem-activerecord-1:3.0.13-5.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: rubygem-bson-0:1.8.1-2.el6op

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift EnterpriseFixed in: rubygem-mongo-0:1.8.1-2.el6op

rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa

Product: actionpackFixed in: 3.2.8

rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa

Product: actionpackFixed in: 3.0.17

rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa

Product: actionpackFixed in: 2.3.16

rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa

Product: actionpackFixed in: 3.1.8

Vendor Advisories (2)

rubygemsGHSA-7g65-ghrg-hpf5medium

actionpack Cross-site Scripting vulnerability

redhatCVE-2012-3465Moderate

rubygem-actionpack: XSS Vulnerability in strip_tags

References

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-0154.html

secunia.com / advisories/50694

groups.google.com / group/rubyonrails-security/msg/7fbb5392d4d282b5

weblog.rubyonrails.org / 2012/8/9/ann-rails-3-2-8-has-been-released

Vendor Advisory