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  "system_id": "rails",
  "display_name": "Ruby on Rails",
  "category": "frameworks",
  "advisory_mode": "core",
  "title": "Moderate severity vulnerability that affects rails",
  "summary": "Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the strip_tags function in Ruby on Rails before 2.2.s, and 2.3.x before 2.3.5, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving non-printing ASCII characters, related to HTML::Tokenizer and actionpack/lib/action_controller/vendor/html-scanner/html/node.rb.",
  "published_at": "2017-10-24T18:33:38Z",
  "updated_at": "2025-04-09T20:05:53.148849Z",
  "severity": "medium",
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  "exploit_status": "unknown",
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  "official_source_url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-4214",
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    "http://github.com/rails/rails/commit/bfe032858077bb2946abe25e95e485ba6da86bd5",
    "https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9p3v-wf2w-v29c",
    "https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rails/CVE-2009-4214.yml",
    "http://github.com/rails/rails",
    "http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/browse_thread/thread/4d4f71f2aef4c0ab?pli=1",
    "http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html",
    "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00004.html",
    "http://secunia.com/advisories/37446",
    "http://secunia.com/advisories/38915",
    "http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4077",
    "http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2009/11/30/ruby-on-rails-2-3-5-released",
    "http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2260",
    "http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2301",
    "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/11/27/2",
    "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/12/08/3",
    "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37142",
    "http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1023245",
    "http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3352"
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