GHSA-9p3v-wf2w-v29c

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Source
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9p3v-wf2w-v29c
Import Source
https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2017/10/GHSA-9p3v-wf2w-v29c/GHSA-9p3v-wf2w-v29c.json
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https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-9p3v-wf2w-v29c
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Published
2017-10-24T18:33:38Z
Modified
2025-04-09T20:05:53Z
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.

Database specific 
{
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-79"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2020-06-16T21:29:07Z",
    "nvd_published_at": "2009-12-07T17:30:00Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
}
References

Affected packages

RubyGems / rails

Package

Name
rails
Purl
pkg:gem/rails

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.2.2

Affected versions

0.*
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
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.*
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.*
2.0.0
2.0.1
2.0.2
2.0.4
2.0.5
2.1.0
2.1.1
2.1.2

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2017/10/GHSA-9p3v-wf2w-v29c/GHSA-9p3v-wf2w-v29c.json"

RubyGems / rails

Package

Name
rails
Purl
pkg:gem/rails

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
2.3.0
Fixed
2.3.5

Affected versions

2.*
2.3.2
2.3.3
2.3.4

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2017/10/GHSA-9p3v-wf2w-v29c/GHSA-9p3v-wf2w-v29c.json"