GHSA-9p3v-wf2w-v29c

Moderate severity vulnerability that affects rails

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2009-4214

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
RubyGems	rails	< 2.2.2	2.2.2
RubyGems	rails	>= 2.3.0, < 2.3.5	2.3.5

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

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.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-4214 advisory
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9p3v-wf2w-v29c advisory
https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rails/CVE-2009-4214.yml web
http://github.com/rails/rails package
http://github.com/rails/rails/commit/bfe032858077bb2946abe25e95e485ba6da86bd5 web
http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/browse_thread/thread/4d4f71f2aef4c0ab?pli=1 web
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html web
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00004.html web
http://secunia.com/advisories/37446 web
http://secunia.com/advisories/38915 web
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4077 web
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2009/11/30/ruby-on-rails-2-3-5-released web
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2260 web
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2301 web
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/11/27/2 web
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/12/08/3 web
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37142 web
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1023245 web
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3352 web