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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-3009

Original release date:09/08/2009
Last revised:07/06/2012
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Ruby on Rails 2.x before 2.2.3, and 2.3.x before 2.3.4, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by placing malformed Unicode strings into a form helper.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
CVSS v2 Base Score:4.3 (MEDIUM) (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N) (legend)
Impact Subscore: 2.9
Exploitability Subscore: 8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification

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External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2009-2544
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2544
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1022824
Type: Patch Information
Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1022824
External Source: MLIST
Name: [rubyonrails-security] 20090904 XSS Vulnerability in Ruby on Rails
Type: Patch Information
Hyperlink:http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/7f57cd7794e1d1b4?dmode=source
External Source: XF
Name: rubyonrails-unicode-xss(53036)
Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/53036
External Source: BID
Name: 36278
Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36278
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 57666
Hyperlink:http://www.osvdb.org/57666
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1887
Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1887
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2009/9/4/xss-vulnerability-in-ruby-on-rails
Hyperlink:http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2009/9/4/xss-vulnerability-in-ruby-on-rails
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4077
Hyperlink:http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4077
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 36717
Type: Advisory
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/36717
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 36600
Type: Advisory
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/36600
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2009:017
Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-10/msg00004.html
External Source: APPLE
Name: APPLE-SA-2010-03-29-1
Hyperlink:http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=545063
Hyperlink:http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=545063

Vulnerable software and versions

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spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:rubyonrails:ruby_on_rails:2.0.2
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:rubyonrails:ruby_on_rails:2.0.4
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:rubyonrails:ruby_on_rails:2.0.0:rc2
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:rubyonrails:ruby_on_rails:2.0.1
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:rubyonrails:ruby_on_rails:2.0.0
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:rubyonrails:ruby_on_rails:2.0.0:rc1
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:rubyonrails:ruby_on_rails:2.1.1
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:rubyonrails:ruby_on_rails:2.1.2
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:rubyonrails:ruby_on_rails:2.1
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:rubyonrails:ruby_on_rails:2.1.0
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:rubyonrails:ruby_on_rails:2.2.2
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:rubyonrails:ruby_on_rails:2.2.0
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:rubyonrails:ruby_on_rails:2.2.1
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:rubyonrails:ruby_on_rails:2.3.2
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:rubyonrails:ruby_on_rails:2.3.3
* Denotes Vulnerable Software
* Changes related to vulnerability configurations

Technical Details

Vulnerability Type (View All)
  • Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) (CWE-79)
CVE Standard Vulnerability Entry:http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3009