DEBIAN-CVE-2009-4214

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-4214
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2009-4214.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2009-4214
Upstream
Downstream
Published
2009-12-07T17:30:00Z
Modified
2026-09-17T06:47:35Z
Summary
[none]
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

Affected packages

Debian:12 / rails

Package

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

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.2.3-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "low"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2009-4214.json"

Debian:13 / rails

Package

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

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.2.3-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "low"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2009-4214.json"

Debian:14 / rails

Package

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

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.2.3-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "low"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2009-4214.json"