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CVE-2012-6684

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the RedCloth library 4.2.9 for Ruby and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a javascript: URI.

Published

2015-01-08T01:59:01.267

Last Modified

2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 4.3 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

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

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: MEDIUM
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: NONE
Integrity Impact: PARTIAL
Availability Impact: NONE

Exploitability Score

8.6

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-79

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	redcloth	redcloth_library	≤ 4.2.9	Yes
Operating System	debian	debian_linux	7.0	Yes

References

http://co3k.org/blog/redcloth-unfixed-xss-en Broken Link ([email protected])
http://jgarber.lighthouseapp.com/projects/13054-redcloth/tickets/243-xss Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Dec/50 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3168 Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://gist.github.com/co3k/75b3cb416c342aa1414c Issue Tracking, Patch ([email protected])
http://co3k.org/blog/redcloth-unfixed-xss-en Broken Link (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://jgarber.lighthouseapp.com/projects/13054-redcloth/tickets/243-xss Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Dec/50 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3168 Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://gist.github.com/co3k/75b3cb416c342aa1414c Issue Tracking, Patch (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)