CVE-2009-3009

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.

• CWE-79

• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=545063
• http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/7f57cd7794e1d1b4?dmode=sourcePatch
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-10/msg00004.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/36600Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/36717Vendor Advisory
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1022824Patch
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4077
• http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2009/9/4/xss-vulnerability-in-ruby-on-rails
• http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1887
• http://www.osvdb.org/57666
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36278
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2544Patch, Vendor Advisory
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53036
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=545063
• http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/7f57cd7794e1d1b4?dmode=sourcePatch
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-10/msg00004.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/36600Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/36717Vendor Advisory
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1022824Patch
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4077
• http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2009/9/4/xss-vulnerability-in-ruby-on-rails
• http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1887
• http://www.osvdb.org/57666
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36278
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2544Patch, Vendor Advisory
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53036

Published

Sep 8, 2009

Last Modified

Jun 16, 2026

Status

Modified

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