XSS in Rubyonrails Rails
CVE-2009-3009
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.
Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.030 (87.0th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 87th percentile — 87.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.030 · newest: 0.030 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Rubyonrails Rails — versions 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/36278 (vdb-entry)
- weblog.rubyonrails.org/2009/9/4/xss-vulnerability-in-ruby-on-rails
- secunia.com/advisories/36600 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2544 (Patch, vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53036 (vdb-entry)
- support.apple.com/kb/HT4077
- www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1887 (vendor-advisory)
- groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/7f57cd7794e1d1b4 (mailing-list, Patch)
- bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi