National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-4214

Overview

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.

Impact

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External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2009-3352

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3352

External Source: BID

Name: 37142

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37142

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://github.com/rails/rails/commit/bfe032858077bb2946abe25e95e485ba6da86bd5

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://github.com/rails/rails/commit/bfe032858077bb2946abe25e95e485ba6da86bd5

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1023245

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1023245

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20091208 Re: CVE request: ruby on rails XSS Weakness in strip_tags

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/12/08/3

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20091127 CVE request: ruby on rails XSS Weakness in strip_tags

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/11/27/2

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-2301

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2301

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-2260

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2260

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2009/11/30/ruby-on-rails-2-3-5-released

Hyperlink:http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2009/11/30/ruby-on-rails-2-3-5-released

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4077

Hyperlink:http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4077

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 38915

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/38915

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 37446

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/37446

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SR:2010:006

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/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: MLIST

Name: [rubyonrails-security] 20091127 XSS Weakness in strip_tags

Hyperlink:http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/browse_thread/thread/4d4f71f2aef4c0ab?pli=1