CVE-2009-3009

N/A Unknown

Published: September 08, 2009 Modified: April 23, 2026

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Ruby on Rails 2.x before 2.2.3, and 2.3.x before 2.3.4, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by placing malformed Unicode strings into a form helper.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=545063

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/7f57cd7794e1d1b4?dmode=source

Source: cve@mitre.org

Patch

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-10/msg00004.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/36600

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/36717

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://securitytracker.com/id?1022824

Source: cve@mitre.org

Patch

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4077

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2009/9/4/xss-vulnerability-in-ruby-on-rails

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1887

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.osvdb.org/57666

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36278

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2544

Source: cve@mitre.org

Patch Vendor Advisory

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53036

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=545063