Vulnerability Report

CVE-2013-0256

Title: Ruby-Lang Rdoc Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

XSS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2013-0256.

CWE Category CWE-79

Published Date Mar 01, 2013

Modified Date Apr 29, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.67%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2013-0256: darkfish.js in RDoc 2.3.0 through 3.12 and 4.x before 4.0.0.preview2.1, as used in Ruby, does not properly generate documents, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a crafted URL.

Impacted Vendors

ruby-lang 2

yukihiro_matsumoto 1

Reference Links

http://blog.segment7.net/2013/02/06/rdoc-xss-vulnerability-cve-2013-0256-releases-3-9-5-3-12-1-4-0-0-rc-2 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00015.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-02/msg00048.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0548.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0686.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0701.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0728.html http://secunia.com/advisories/52774 http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/02/06/rdoc-xss-cve-2013-0256/ http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1733-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=907820 https://github.com/rdoc/rdoc/commit/ffa87887ee0517793df7541629a470e331f9fe60 http://blog.segment7.net/2013/02/06/rdoc-xss-vulnerability-cve-2013-0256-releases-3-9-5-3-12-1-4-0-0-rc-2 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00015.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-02/msg00048.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0548.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0686.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0701.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0728.html http://secunia.com/advisories/52774 http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/02/06/rdoc-xss-cve-2013-0256/ http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1733-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=907820 https://github.com/rdoc/rdoc/commit/ffa87887ee0517793df7541629a470e331f9fe60

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2013-0256 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

March 01, 2013 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


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

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.