CVE-2009-3009

unknown
Published 2017-10-24 · Modified 2025-04-09
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-3009

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed2.2.3-1
debian debianbullseyefixed2.2.3-1
debian debianforkyfixed2.2.3-1
debian debiansidfixed2.2.3-1
debian debiantrixiefixed2.2.3-1

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
ruby RubyGemsactionpack!< 2.0.0||<~> 2.2.3~> 2.2.3
ruby RubyGemsactivesupport!< 2.0.0||<~> 2.2.3~> 2.2.3
ruby RubyGemsactionpack>=2.0.0,<2.2.32.2.3
ruby RubyGemsactionpack>=2.3.0,<2.3.42.3.4
ruby RubyGemsactivesupport>=2.0.0,<2.2.32.2.3
ruby RubyGemsactivesupport>=2.3.0,<2.3.42.3.4

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.