CVE-2009-4214
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.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 2.2.3-2 |
| sid | Fixed | 2.2.3-2 |
| forky | Fixed | 2.2.3-2 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 2.2.3-2 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 2.2.3-2 |
References
- http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2009/11/30/ruby-on-rails-2-3-5-released
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-4214
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9p3v-wf2w-v29c
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rails/CVE-2009-4214.yml
- http://github.com/rails/rails
- http://github.com/rails/rails/commit/bfe032858077bb2946abe25e95e485ba6da86bd5
- 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/37446
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38915
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4077
- 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/37142
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1023245
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3352
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-4214
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.