Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Affecting rails package, versions <2.2.3-1


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.32% (72nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN13-RAILS-5694359
  • published8 Sept 2009
  • disclosed8 Sept 2009

Introduced: 8 Sep 2009

CVE-2009-3009  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:13 rails to version 2.2.3-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream rails package and not the rails package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:13 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Scores

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