ADVISORIES

• CVE-2009-4214 (NVD)
• GHSA-9p3v-wf2w-v29c
• Vendor Advisory

GEM

rails

FRAMEWORK

Ruby on Rails

SEVERITY

CVSS v2.0: 4.3 (Medium)

PATCHED VERSIONS

• ~> 2.2.2
• >= 2.3.5

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.

RELATED

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-4214
• http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2009/11/30/ruby-on-rails-2-3-5-released
• https://groups.google.com/g/rubyonrails-security/c/TU9x8q70wKs
• http://github.com/rails/rails/commit/bfe032858077bb2946abe25e95e485ba6da86bd5
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9p3v-wf2w-v29c
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4077
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00004.htm
• 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