Moderate severity XSS vulnerability that affects rails
Published: October 24, 2017
SECURITY IDENTIFIERS
- CVE: CVE-2009-3009 (NVD)
- GHSA: GHSA-8qrh-h9m2-5fvf
- OSVDB: OSVDB-57666
- Vendor Advisory: http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2009/9/4/xss-vulnerability-in-ruby-on-rails
GEM
FRAMEWORK
UNAFFECTED VERSIONS
< 2.0.0
PATCHED VERSIONS
~> 2.2.3
>= 2.3.4
DESCRIPTION
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Ruby on Rails 2.x before 2.2.3, and 2.3.x before 2.3.4, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by placing malformed Unicode strings into a form helper.
9/4/2009 url mentions patches for 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, and 2.3 series.
RELATED
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-3009
- http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2009/9/4/xss-vulnerability-in-ruby-on-rails
- https://groups.google.com/g/rubyonrails-security/c/SKs_SiwWGQ8/m/tNHhlHfNV38J
- http://www.osvdb.org/57666
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53036
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8qrh-h9m2-5fvf
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=545063
- https://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4077
- https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-10/msg00004.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1887