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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.

Published

2009-12-07T17:30:00.217

Last Modified

2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 4.3 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

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

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: MEDIUM
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: NONE
Integrity Impact: PARTIAL
Availability Impact: NONE

Exploitability Score

8.6

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-79

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	rubyonrails	rails	2.3.2	Yes
Application	rubyonrails	rails	2.3.3	Yes
Application	rubyonrails	rails	2.3.4	Yes
Application	rubyonrails	rails	0.9.1	Yes
Application	rubyonrails	rails	0.9.2	Yes
Application	rubyonrails	rails	0.9.3	Yes
Application	rubyonrails	rails	0.9.4	Yes
Application	rubyonrails	rails	0.9.4.1	Yes
Application	rubyonrails	rails	0.10.0	Yes
Application	rubyonrails	rails	0.10.1	Yes
Application	rubyonrails	rails	0.11.0	Yes
Application	rubyonrails	rails	0.11.1	Yes
Application	rubyonrails	rails	0.12.0	Yes
Application	rubyonrails	rails	0.12.1	Yes
Application	rubyonrails	rails	0.13.0	Yes
Application	rubyonrails	rails	0.13.1	Yes
Application	rubyonrails	rails	0.14.1	Yes
Application	rubyonrails	rails	0.14.2	Yes
Application	rubyonrails	rails	0.14.3	Yes
Application	rubyonrails	rails	0.14.4	Yes
Application	rubyonrails	rails	1.0.0	Yes
Application	rubyonrails	rails	1.1.0	Yes
Application	rubyonrails	rails	1.1.1	Yes
Application	rubyonrails	rails	1.1.2	Yes
Application	rubyonrails	rails	1.1.3	Yes
Application	rubyonrails	rails	1.1.4	Yes
Application	rubyonrails	rails	1.1.5	Yes
Application	rubyonrails	rails	1.1.6	Yes
Application	rubyonrails	rails	1.2.0	Yes
Application	rubyonrails	rails	1.2.1	Yes
Application	rubyonrails	rails	1.2.2	Yes
Application	rubyonrails	rails	1.2.3	Yes
Application	rubyonrails	rails	1.2.4	Yes
Application	rubyonrails	rails	1.2.5	Yes
Application	rubyonrails	rails	1.2.6	Yes
Application	rubyonrails	rails	1.9.5	Yes
Application	rubyonrails	rails	2.0.0	Yes
Application	rubyonrails	rails	2.0.0	Yes
Application	rubyonrails	rails	2.0.0	Yes
Application	rubyonrails	rails	2.0.1	Yes
Application	rubyonrails	rails	2.0.2	Yes
Application	rubyonrails	rails	2.0.4	Yes
Application	rubyonrails	rails	2.1.0	Yes
Application	rubyonrails	rails	2.1.1	Yes
Application	rubyonrails	ruby_on_rails	≤ 2.1.2	Yes
Application	rubyonrails	ruby_on_rails	0.5.0	Yes
Application	rubyonrails	ruby_on_rails	0.5.5	Yes
Application	rubyonrails	ruby_on_rails	0.5.6	Yes
Application	rubyonrails	ruby_on_rails	0.5.7	Yes
Application	rubyonrails	ruby_on_rails	0.6.0	Yes
Application	rubyonrails	ruby_on_rails	0.6.5	Yes
Application	rubyonrails	ruby_on_rails	0.7.0	Yes
Application	rubyonrails	ruby_on_rails	0.8.0	Yes
Application	rubyonrails	ruby_on_rails	0.8.5	Yes
Application	rubyonrails	ruby_on_rails	0.9.0	Yes

References

http://github.com/rails/rails/commit/bfe032858077bb2946abe25e95e485ba6da86bd5 Patch ([email protected])
http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/browse_thread/thread/4d4f71f2aef4c0ab?pli=1 ([email protected])
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html ([email protected])
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00004.html ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/37446 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/38915 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4077 ([email protected])
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2009/11/30/ruby-on-rails-2-3-5-released ([email protected])
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2260 ([email protected])
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2301 ([email protected])
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/11/27/2 ([email protected])
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/12/08/3 ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37142 Patch ([email protected])
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1023245 ([email protected])
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3352 Patch, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://github.com/rails/rails/commit/bfe032858077bb2946abe25e95e485ba6da86bd5 Patch (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/browse_thread/thread/4d4f71f2aef4c0ab?pli=1 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00004.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/37446 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/38915 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4077 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2009/11/30/ruby-on-rails-2-3-5-released (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2260 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2301 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/11/27/2 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/12/08/3 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37142 Patch (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1023245 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3352 Patch, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)