PT-2009-5349 · Ruby · Ruby On Rails

Brian Mastenbrook · Published 2009-09-08 · Updated 2019-08-08 · CVE-2009-3009

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Ruby on Rails versions 2.x prior to 2.2.3 Ruby on Rails versions 2.3.x prior to 2.3.4

Description: A cross-site scripting (XSS) issue allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by placing malformed Unicode strings into a form helper.

Recommendations: For Ruby on Rails versions 2.x prior to 2.2.3, update to version 2.2.3 or later. For Ruby on Rails versions 2.3.x prior to 2.3.4, update to version 2.3.4 or later.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2009-3009

DSA-1887-1

GHSA-8QRH-H9M2-5FVF

Affected Products

Ruby On Rails

References · 22

• 🔥 https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/activesupport/CVE-2009-3009.yml · Exploit
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/7f57cd7794e1d1b4?dmode=source · Patch
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2544 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-10/msg00004.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1887 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2009-3009 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-3009 · Security Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1022824 · Patch
• http://secunia.com/advisories/36717 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/36600 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-8qrh-h9m2-5fvf · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-3009 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2009-3009 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3009 · Note