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CVE-2009-4214
Published: Dec 7, 2009
Modified: Aug 7, 2024
PUBLISHED
Description
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.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
n/a | n/a | affected n/a |
References
[rubyonrails-security] 20091127 XSS Weakness in strip_tags
mailing-list
x_refsource_MLIST
37446
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
ADV-2009-3352
vdb-entry
x_refsource_VUPEN
DSA-2301
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_DEBIAN
APPLE-SA-2010-03-29-1
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_APPLE
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2009/11/30/ruby-on-rails-2-3-5-released
x_refsource_CONFIRM
37142
vdb-entry
x_refsource_BID
DSA-2260
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_DEBIAN
[oss-security] 20091127 CVE request: ruby on rails XSS Weakness in strip_tags
mailing-list
x_refsource_MLIST
SUSE-SR:2010:006
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_SUSE
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4077
x_refsource_CONFIRM
1023245
vdb-entry
x_refsource_SECTRACK
38915
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
[oss-security] 20091208 Re: CVE request: ruby on rails XSS Weakness in strip_tags
mailing-list
x_refsource_MLIST
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