Vulnerability advisory

GHSA-9p3v-wf2w-v29c

Moderate severity vulnerability that affects rails

Published Oct 24, 2017Updated Apr 9, 2025OSV record ↗

Also known as CVE-2009-4214

Severity

Severity not reported.

Affected versions

rails RubyGems

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Affected	Fixed in
All versions before 2.2.2	`2.2.2`Advisories →
Also listed as affected (44) `0.10.0` `0.10.1` `0.11.0` `0.11.1` `0.12.0` `0.12.1` `0.13.0` `0.13.1` `0.14.1` `0.14.2` `0.14.3` `0.14.4` `0.8.0` `0.8.5` `0.9.0` `0.9.1` `0.9.2` `0.9.3` `0.9.4` `0.9.4.1` `0.9.5` `1.0.0` `1.1.0` `1.1.1` `1.1.2` `1.1.3` `1.1.4` `1.1.5` `1.1.6` `1.2.0` `1.2.1` `1.2.2` `1.2.3` `1.2.4` `1.2.5` `1.2.6` `2.0.0` `2.0.1` `2.0.2` `2.0.4` `2.0.5` `2.1.0` `2.1.1` `2.1.2`
`2.3.0` to before 2.3.5	`2.3.5`Advisories →
Also listed as affected (3) `2.3.2` `2.3.3` `2.3.4`

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.

GHSA-9p3v-wf2w-v29c

Affected versions

rails RubyGems

Description

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