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jruby: XSS in the regular expression engine when processing invalid UTF-8 byte sequences

Published Nov 23, 2012

Description

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.

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Nov 23, 2012
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Reserved Apr 8, 2010
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Moderate
Public date Apr 26, 2010
GHSA-WMQ2-JC9M-XP4M