XSS in Rubyonrails Rails
CVE-2009-4214
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.
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 2.3.2, 2.3.3, 2.3.4
- Rubyonrails Ruby On Rails — versions 0.5.0, 0.5.5, 0.5.6
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/browse_thread/thread/4d4f71f2aef4c… (mailing-list)
- secunia.com/advisories/37446 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3352 (Patch, vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2301 (vendor-advisory)
- lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html (vendor-advisory)
- weblog.rubyonrails.org/2009/11/30/ruby-on-rails-2-3-5-released
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/37142 (Patch, vdb-entry)
- www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2260 (vendor-advisory)
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/11/27/2 (mailing-list)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00004.html (vendor-advisory)