CVE-2009-3009 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2009-3009

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Ruby on Rails 2.x before...

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

rubyonrails

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Affected Software

rails
Vulnerable Versions:
2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.4, 2.1.0, 2.1.1, 2.1.2, 2.2.0, 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.3.2, 2.3.3

Timeline

Official Publish: September 8th, 2009
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

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Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.