CVE-2009-3009
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3EPSS 3.0%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-79
- EPSS score
- 3.0% (88th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2017-0194)
- Published
- September 8, 2009
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2017-0194 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- rubyonrails / rails
- rubyonrails / rails
- rubyonrails / rails
- rubyonrails / rails
- rubyonrails / rails
- rubyonrails / rails
- rubyonrails / rails
- rubyonrails / rails
- rubyonrails / rails
- rubyonrails / rails
- rubyonrails / rails
- rubyonrails / rails
- rubyonrails / rails
- rubyonrails / rails
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=545063
- http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/7f57cd7794e1d1b4?dmode=source(Patch)
- 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/36600(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36717(Vendor Advisory)
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1022824(Patch)
- 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/2009/2544(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/53036
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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