CVE-2009-4214
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the strip_tags function in Ruby on Rails before 2.2.s, and 2.3.x before 2.3.5, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving non-printing ASCII characters, related to…
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Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the strip_tags function in Ruby on Rails before 2.2.s, and 2.3.x before 2.3.5, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving non-printing ASCII characters, related to HTML::Tokenizer and actionpack/lib/action_controller/vendor/html-scanner/html/node.rb.
- CVSS 2.0
- 4.3 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- EPSS
- 3.02% probability · 87th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Affected
- rubyonrails/rails · rubyonrails/ruby on rails
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- http://github.com/rails/rails/commit/bfe032858077bb2946abe25e95e485ba6da86bd5Patch
- http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/browse_thread/thread/4d4f71f2aef4c0ab?pli=1
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00004.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37446Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38915Vendor Advisory
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4077
- http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2009/11/30/ruby-on-rails-2-3-5-released
- http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2260
- http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2301
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/11/27/2
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/12/08/3
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37142Patch
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1023245
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3352Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://github.com/rails/rails/commit/bfe032858077bb2946abe25e95e485ba6da86bd5Patch
- http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/browse_thread/thread/4d4f71f2aef4c0ab?pli=1
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00004.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37446Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38915Vendor Advisory
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4077
- http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2009/11/30/ruby-on-rails-2-3-5-released
- http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2260
- http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2301
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/11/27/2
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/12/08/3
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37142Patch
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1023245
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3352Patch, Vendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.