Cross-site Scripting (XSS) The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package rails  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1810-RAILS-644228
  • published10 Aug 2012
  • disclosed10 Aug 2012

Introduced: 10 Aug 2012

CVE-2012-3463  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:18.10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream rails package and not the rails package as distributed by Ubuntu.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/form_tag_helper.rb in Ruby on Rails 3.x before 3.0.17, 3.1.x before 3.1.8, and 3.2.x before 3.2.8 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the prompt field to the select_tag helper.