CVE-2009-4214

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.

Risk Information

Base Score

8.6

MODERATE

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

1.632

Associated Vulnerability

Vulnerability	OS Platform
Vulnerabilities CVE-2009-4214 are fixed in Ruby-rails 2.2.2	Windows
Vulnerabilities CVE-2009-4214 are fixed in Ruby-rails 2.3.5	Windows
Vulnerabilities CVE-2009-4214 are fixed in Ruby-rails for Linux 2.2.2	Linux
Vulnerabilities CVE-2009-4214 are fixed in Ruby-rails for Linux 2.3.5	Linux

Patch Details

No records found

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234