GHSA-9p3v-wf2w-v29c

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GHSA-9p3v-wf2w-v29c

Summary: Moderate severity vulnerability that affects rails

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://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-4214, https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9p3v-wf2w-v29c, https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rails/CVE-2009-4214.yml, http://github.com/rails/rails, http://github.com/rails/rails/commit/bfe032858077bb2946abe25e95e485ba6da86bd5, http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/browse_thread/thread/4d4f71f2aef4c0ab?pli=1, http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00004.html, http://secunia.com/advisories/37446, http://secunia.com/advisories/38915, http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4077, http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2009/11/30/ruby-on-rails-2-3-5-released, http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2260, http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2301, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/11/27/2, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/12/08/3, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37142, http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1023245, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3352