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CVE-2009-4214

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Date: December 7, 2009

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.

Language: Ruby

Severity Score

3.7

Related Resources (20)

Url: http://github.com/rails/rails

Url: http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1023245

Url: https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rails/CVE-2009-4214.yml

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/38915

Url: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4077

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37142

Url: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9p3v-wf2w-v29c

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3352

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00004.html

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-4214

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/37446

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2301

Url: http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/browse_thread/thread/4d4f71f2aef4c0ab?pli=1

Url: http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2260

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/11/27/2

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/12/08/3

Url: http://github.com/rails/rails/commit/bfe032858077bb2946abe25e95e485ba6da86bd5

Url: http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2009/11/30/ruby-on-rails-2-3-5-released

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2009-4214

Severity Score

3.7

Weakness Type (CWE)

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

CWE-79

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CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	3.7
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	LOW
Availability (A):	NONE

CVSS v2

Base Score:	4.3
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	PARTIAL
Availability (A):	NONE
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CVE-2009-4214

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Date: December 7, 2009

Language: Ruby

Severity Score

Related Resources (20)

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Top Fix

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CVSS v3.1

CVSS v2

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