CVE-2009-4214 – rails

Package

Manager: gem
Name: rails
Vulnerable Version: >=0 <2.2.2 || >=2.3.0 <2.3.5

Severity

Level: Medium

CVSS v3.1: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N/E:H/RL:U/RC:R

CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:N/SA:N

EPSS: 0.01632 pctl0.81193

Details

Moderate severity vulnerability that affects rails 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.

Metadata

Created: 2017-10-24T18:33:38Z
Modified: 2025-04-09T19:53:05Z
Source: https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2017/10/GHSA-9p3v-wf2w-v29c/GHSA-9p3v-wf2w-v29c.json
CWE IDs: ["CWE-79"]
Alternative ID: GHSA-9p3v-wf2w-v29c
Finding: F425
Auto approve: 1