DEBIAN-CVE-2009-4214

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    DEBIAN-CVE-2009-4214

    Published: 7 Dec 2009Last Modified: 1 Sept 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2009-4214

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-4214

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: rails

    Purl: pkg:deb/debian/rails?arch=source&distro=bookworm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.2.3-2

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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