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CVE-2009-3009

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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.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53036

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2544

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36278

http://www.osvdb.org/57666

http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1887

http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2009/9/4/xss-vulnerability-in-ruby-on-rails

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

http://securitytracker.com/id?1022824

http://secunia.com/advisories/36717

http://secunia.com/advisories/36600

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-10/msg00004.html

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

http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/7f57cd7794e1d1b4?dmode=source

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=545063

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2009-09-08

Updated: 2025-04-09

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.01632

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