Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Informations
Name CVE-2009-4214 First vendor Publication 2009-12-07
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2019-08-08

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 4.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

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.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-4214

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-79 Failure to Preserve Web Page Structure ('Cross-site Scripting') (CWE/SANS Top 25)

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12767
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12767
Title: DSA-2260-1 rails -- several
Description: Two vulnerabilities were discovered in Ruby on Rails, a web application framework. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2009-3086 The cookie store may be vulnerability to a timing attack, potentially allowing remote attackers to forge message digests. CVE-2009-4214 A cross-site scripting vulnerability in the strip_tags function allows remote user-assisted attackers to inject arbitrary web script.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-2260-1
CVE-2009-3086
CVE-2009-4214
 Version: 5
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 5.0
 Product(s): rails
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14680
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14680
Title: DSA-2301-1 rails -- several
Description: Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in Rails, the Ruby web application framework. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2009-4214 A cross-site scripting vulnerability had been found in the strip_tags function. An attacker may inject non-printable characters that certain browsers will then evaluate. This vulnerability only affects the oldstable distribution. CVE-2011-2930 A SQL injection vulnerability had been found in the quote_table_name method could allow malicious users to inject arbitrary SQL into a query. CVE-2011-2931 A cross-site scripting vulnerability had been found in the strip_tags helper. An parsing error can be exploited by an attacker, who can confuse the parser and may inject HTML tags into the output document. CVE-2011-3186 A newline injection vulnerability had been found in response.rb. This vulnerability allows an attacker to inject arbitrary HTTP headers and conduct HTTP response splitting attacks via the Content-Type header.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-2301-1
CVE-2011-2930
CVE-2011-2931
CVE-2011-3186
CVE-2009-4214
 Version: 5
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 5.0
Debian GNU/Linux 6.0
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 6.0
 Product(s): rails
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:15291
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:15291
Title: DSA-2301-2 rails -- several
Description: It was discovered that the last security update for Ruby on Rails, DSA-2301-1, introduced a regression in the libactionpack-ruby package.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-2301-2
CVE-2011-2930
CVE-2011-2931
CVE-2011-3186
CVE-2009-4214
 Version: 5
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 5.0
Debian GNU/Linux 6.0
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 6.0
 Product(s): rails
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 48
Application 11

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2012-02-11 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 2301-2 (rails)
File : nvt/deb_2301_2.nasl
2011-09-21 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 2301-1 (rails)
File : nvt/deb_2301_1.nasl
2010-05-12 Name : Mac OS X 10.6.3 Update / Mac OS X Security Update 2010-002
File : nvt/macosx_upd_10_6_3_secupd_2010-002.nasl
2009-12-30 Name : Fedora Core 11 FEDORA-2009-13361 (rubygem-actionpack)
File : nvt/fcore_2009_13361.nasl
2009-12-30 Name : Fedora Core 12 FEDORA-2009-13393 (rubygem-actionpack)
File : nvt/fcore_2009_13393.nasl
2009-12-30 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200912-02 (rails)
File : nvt/glsa_200912_02.nasl
2009-12-14 Name : Fedora Core 10 FEDORA-2009-12966 (rubygem-actionpack)
File : nvt/fcore_2009_12966.nasl
2009-12-09 Name : Ruby on Rails 'strip_tags' Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability (Linux)
File : nvt/gb_ruby_rails_xss_vuln_lin.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
60544 Ruby on Rails HTML::Tokenizer strip_tags Function XSS

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2011-09-06 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-2301.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-06-15 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-2260.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-03-29 Name : The remote host is missing a Mac OS X update that fixes various security issues.
File : macosx_10_6_3.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-03-29 Name : The remote host is missing a Mac OS X update that fixes various security issues.
File : macosx_SecUpd2010-002.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-03-11 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_2_rubygem-actionpack-2_3-100205.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-03-04 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_0_rubygem-actionpack-100205.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-03-04 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_1_rubygem-actionpack-100210.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-03-04 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_2_rubygem-actionpack-100210.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-12-22 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200912-02.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-12-18 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2009-13361.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-12-18 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2009-13393.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-12-10 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2009-12966.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
APPLE http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html
BID http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37142
CONFIRM http://github.com/rails/rails/commit/bfe032858077bb2946abe25e95e485ba6da86bd5
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4077
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2009/11/30/ruby-on-rails-2-3-5-released
DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2260
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2301
MLIST http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/browse_thread/thread/4d4f...
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/11/27/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/12/08/3
SECTRACK http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1023245
SECUNIA http://secunia.com/advisories/37446
http://secunia.com/advisories/38915
SUSE http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00004.html
VUPEN http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3352

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