ghsa-9p3v-wf2w-v29c
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Published
2017-10-24 18:33
Modified
2025-04-09 19:53
Summary
Moderate severity vulnerability that affects rails
Details

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.

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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "RubyGems",
        "name": "rails"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "2.2.2"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "RubyGems",
        "name": "rails"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "2.3.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "2.3.5"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2009-4214"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-79"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2020-06-16T21:29:07Z",
    "nvd_published_at": "2009-12-07T17:30:00Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "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.",
  "id": "GHSA-9p3v-wf2w-v29c",
  "modified": "2025-04-09T19:53:05Z",
  "published": "2017-10-24T18:33:38Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-4214"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9p3v-wf2w-v29c"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rails/CVE-2009-4214.yml"
    },
    {
      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "http://github.com/rails/rails"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://github.com/rails/rails/commit/bfe032858077bb2946abe25e95e485ba6da86bd5"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/browse_thread/thread/4d4f71f2aef4c0ab?pli=1"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00004.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/37446"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/38915"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4077"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2009/11/30/ruby-on-rails-2-3-5-released"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2260"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2301"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/11/27/2"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/12/08/3"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37142"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1023245"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3352"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [],
  "summary": "Moderate severity vulnerability that affects rails"
}


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