4.3

CVE-2009-4214: rubyonrails rails Cross-site Scripting

CVSS: 4.3v2.0MediumModified
AliasesDEBIAN-CVE-2009-4214GHSA-9p3v-wf2w-v29c
Published 07-12-2009Last modified 07-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2009-4214 is a medium (CVSS 4.3) Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in rubyonrails rails. EPSS estimates a 3.02% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 87.2% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
18/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
4.3/10
010
Medium · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
3.02%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 2 · Duplicates 1
DSA-2260-1DSA-2301-1CVE-2009-4132

Timeline

  1. 07-12-2009
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 07-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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.

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

3.02%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

87%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 3.02% on 20-09-2026

20-09-202620-10-2026
EPSS score
3.02%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Rubyonrails2 products
  • rails2.3.2 | 2.3.3 | 2.3.4 | 0.9.1 | 0.9.2 | 0.9.3 | 0.9.4 | 0.9.4.1 | 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 | 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 | 1.9.5 | 2.0.0 | 2.0.0:rc1 | 2.0.0:rc2 | 2.0.1 | 2.0.2 | 2.0.4 | 2.1.0 | 2.1.1
  • ruby_on_rails≤ 2.1.2 | 0.5.0 | 0.5.5 | 0.5.6 | 0.5.7 | 0.6.0 | 0.6.5 | 0.7.0 | 0.8.0 | 0.8.5 | 0.9.0
Debian1 product
  • rails< 2.2.3-2
RubyGems1 product
  • rails< 2.2.2 | ≥ 2.3.0, < 2.3.5

3 vendors · 4 products

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