CVE-2009-4214 - Vulncode-DB

CVE-2009-4214 (NVD)

2009-12-07

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.

Products	Rails, Ruby_on_rails
Type	Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') (CWE-79)
First patch	http://github.com/rails/rails/commit/bfe032858077bb2946abe25e95e485ba6da86bd5
Relevant file/s	• ./actionpack/lib/action_controller/vendor/html-scanner/html/node.rb (modified, +1, -1) • ./actionpack/test/controller/html-scanner/sanitizer_test.rb (modified, +1)
Links	• http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2301 • http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/12/08/3 • http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2009/11/30/ruby-on-rails-2-3-5-released • http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/11/27/2 • http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/browse_thread/thread/4d4f71f2aef4c0ab?pli=1 More/Less (9) • http://secunia.com/advisories/37446 • http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2260 • http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00004.html • http://secunia.com/advisories/38915 • http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1023245 • http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3352 • http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37142 • http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html • http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4077

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