PT-2009-6376 · Ruby · Ruby On Rails

Josh Bressers · Published 2009-12-07 · Updated 2019-08-08 · CVE-2009-4214

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 prior to 2.2.s Ruby on Rails versions 2.3.x prior to 2.3.5

Description A cross-site scripting (XSS) issue exists due to a vulnerability in the strip tags function, allowing remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving non-printing ASCII characters. This issue is related to HTML::Tokenizer and the html-scanner module in actionpack/lib/action controller/vendor/html-scanner/html/node.rb.

Recommendations For Ruby on Rails versions prior to 2.2.s, update to version 2.2.s or later to resolve the issue. For Ruby on Rails versions 2.3.x prior to 2.3.5, update to version 2.3.5 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2009-4214

DSA-2260-1

DSA-2301-1

GHSA-9P3V-WF2W-V29C

Affected Products

Ruby On Rails

References · 24

• 🔥 https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rails/CVE-2009-4214.yml · Exploit
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/37142 · Patch
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2260 · Vendor Advisory
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3352 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-9p3v-wf2w-v29c · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/37446 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/38915 · Vendor Advisory
• http://github.com/rails/rails/commit/bfe032858077bb2946abe25e95e485ba6da86bd5 · Patch
• http://debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2301 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00004.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-4214 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2009-4214 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-4214 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2009-4214 · Vendor Advisory