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CVE-2009-4214GHSA-9P3V-WF2W-V29C

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 att

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published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 2.2.2, 2.3.5
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

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.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
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Affected versions

  • n/a n/a

    Version range not reported

  • railsRubyGems

    fixed in 2.2.2

  • railsRubyGems

    From 2.3.0 · fixed in 2.3.5

References 15

groups.google.com

secunia.com

vupen.com

debian.org

lists.apple.com

weblog.rubyonrails.org

securityfocus.com

openwall.com

lists.opensuse.org

support.apple.com

securitytracker.com

GitHub · rails/rails