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.
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Affected Vendors & Products
Advisories
| Source | ID | Title |
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Debian DSA |
DSA-2301-1 | rails security update |
Debian DSA |
DSA-2301-2 | rails regression |
EUVD |
EUVD-2017-0207 | Moderate severity vulnerability that affects rails |
Github GHSA |
GHSA-9p3v-wf2w-v29c | Moderate severity vulnerability that affects rails |
Fixes
Solution
No solution given by the vendor.
Workaround
No workaround given by the vendor.
References
History
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-07T06:54:09.938Z
Reserved: 2009-12-07T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2009-4214
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Status : Deferred
Published: 2009-12-07T17:30:00.217
Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490
Link: CVE-2009-4214
OpenCVE Enrichment
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Debian DSA
EUVD
Github GHSA