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CVE-2009-4214

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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.

References

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://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2009/11/30/ruby-on-rails-2-3-5-released

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

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2009-12-07

Updated: 2019-08-08

Type: CWE-79

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

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

Impact Score: 2.9

Exploitability Score: 8.6

Severity: MEDIUM

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