CVE-2012-1099

medium
Published 2012-03-01 · Modified 2024-11-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
4.3
VIR risk
4.3

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/form_options_helper.rb in the select helper in Ruby on Rails 3.0.x before 3.0.12, 3.1.x before 3.1.4, and 3.2.x before 3.2.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving certain generation of OPTION elements within SELECT elements.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-1099

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed2.3.14
debian debianbullseyefixed2.3.14
debian debianforkyfixed2.3.14
debian debiansidfixed2.3.14
debian debiantrixiefixed2.3.14

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
ruby RubyGemsactionpack<~> 3.0.12~> 3.0.12
ruby RubyGemsactionpack>=3.0.0,<3.0.123.0.12
ruby RubyGemsactionpack>=3.1.0,<3.1.43.1.4
ruby RubyGemsactionpack>=3.2.0,<3.2.23.2.2

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
rubyonrailsrails3.0.0
rubyonrailsrails3.0.1
rubyonrailsrails3.0.2
rubyonrailsrails3.0.3
rubyonrailsrails3.0.4
rubyonrailsrails3.0.5
rubyonrailsrails3.0.6
rubyonrailsrails3.0.7
rubyonrailsrails3.0.8
rubyonrailsrails3.0.9
rubyonrailsrails3.0.10
rubyonrailsrails3.0.11
rubyonrailsrails3.0.12
rubyonrailsruby_on_rails3.0.4
rubyonrailsrails3.1.0
rubyonrailsrails3.1.1
rubyonrailsrails3.1.2
rubyonrailsrails3.1.3
rubyonrailsrails3.1.4
rubyonrailsrails3.2.0
rubyonrailsrails3.2.1
rubyonrailsrails3.2.2

References

CWEs

CWE-79

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.