CVE-2009-3009

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Published 2017-10-24 · Modified 2025-04-09

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

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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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`2.2.3-1`
sid	Fixed	`2.2.3-1`
forky	Fixed	`2.2.3-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`2.2.3-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`2.2.3-1`

Package impact

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable	Fixed
RubyGems	actionpack	`!< 2.0.0\|\|<~> 2.2.3`	`~> 2.2.3`
RubyGems	activesupport	`!< 2.0.0\|\|<~> 2.2.3`	`~> 2.2.3`
RubyGems	actionpack	`>=2.0.0,<2.2.3`	`2.2.3`
RubyGems	actionpack	`>=2.3.0,<2.3.4`	`2.3.4`
RubyGems	activesupport	`>=2.0.0,<2.2.3`	`2.2.3`
RubyGems	activesupport	`>=2.3.0,<2.3.4`	`2.3.4`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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