The regular expression engine in JRuby before 1.4.1, when $KCODE is set to 'u', does not properly handle characters immediately after a UTF-8 character, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a crafted string.
2012-11-23T19:55:01.273
2025-04-11T00:51:21.963
Deferred
CVSSv2: 4.3 (MEDIUM)
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
8.6
2.9
| Type | Vendor | Product | Version/Range | Vulnerable? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application | jruby | jruby | ≤ 1.4.0 | Yes |
| Application | jruby | jruby | 0.9.0 | Yes |
| Application | jruby | jruby | 0.9.1 | Yes |
| Application | jruby | jruby | 0.9.2 | Yes |
| Application | jruby | jruby | 0.9.8 | Yes |
| Application | jruby | jruby | 0.9.9 | Yes |
| Application | jruby | jruby | 1.0.0 | Yes |
| Application | jruby | jruby | 1.0.0 | Yes |
| Application | jruby | jruby | 1.0.0 | Yes |
| Application | jruby | jruby | 1.0.0 | Yes |
| Application | jruby | jruby | 1.0.1 | Yes |
| Application | jruby | jruby | 1.0.2 | Yes |
| Application | jruby | jruby | 1.0.3 | Yes |
| Application | jruby | jruby | 1.1 | Yes |
| Application | jruby | jruby | 1.1 | Yes |
| Application | jruby | jruby | 1.1 | Yes |
| Application | jruby | jruby | 1.1 | Yes |
| Application | jruby | jruby | 1.1 | Yes |
| Application | jruby | jruby | 1.1.1 | Yes |
| Application | jruby | jruby | 1.1.2 | Yes |
| Application | jruby | jruby | 1.1.3 | Yes |
| Application | jruby | jruby | 1.1.4 | Yes |
| Application | jruby | jruby | 1.1.5 | Yes |
| Application | jruby | jruby | 1.1.6 | Yes |
| Application | jruby | jruby | 1.1.6 | Yes |
| Application | jruby | jruby | 1.2.0 | Yes |
| Application | jruby | jruby | 1.2.0 | Yes |
| Application | jruby | jruby | 1.2.0 | Yes |
| Application | jruby | jruby | 1.3.0 | Yes |
| Application | jruby | jruby | 1.3.0 | Yes |
| Application | jruby | jruby | 1.3.0 | Yes |
| Application | jruby | jruby | 1.3.1 | Yes |
| Application | jruby | jruby | 1.4.0 | Yes |
| Application | jruby | jruby | 1.4.0 | Yes |
| Application | jruby | jruby | 1.4.0 | Yes |