CVE-2009-4214 (GCVE-0-2009-4214)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-12-07 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 06:54
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 28/100 over 2291 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
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http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3352 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2301 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLE
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2009/11/30/ruby-on-… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37142 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2260 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/11/27/2 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4077 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1023245 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://secunia.com/advisories/38915 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/12/08/3 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://github.com/rails/rails/commit/bfe032858077… x_refsource_CONFIRM
Date Public
2009-11-27 00:00
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