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TI-2009-02866 Aliases CVE-2009-3009GHSA-8qrh-h9m2-5fvf

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Ruby on Rails 2.x before 2.2.3, and 2.3.x…

Priority LOW 26CWE-79Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
— Not recorded in CVSS 2.0
Attack complexity
Medium
Impact type
Cross-site scripting
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
None · Partial · None
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 2.0 · NVD. Fix status from CNA and GitHub. Impact type from CWE-79.

Summary

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.

Why it matters now

EPSS 0.03022 87th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed actionpack (RubyGems): 2.2.3, 2.3.4activesupport (RubyGems): 2.2.3, 2.3.4

SSVC decision points

Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
——all versions—No fix listedCNA
—actionpack (RubyGems)2.0.0 to before 2.2.32.2.3Patch availableGHSA-8qrh-h9m2-5fvf
—actionpack (RubyGems)2.3.0 to before 2.3.42.3.4Patch availableGHSA-8qrh-h9m2-5fvf
—activesupport (RubyGems)2.0.0 to before 2.2.32.2.3Patch availableGHSA-8qrh-h9m2-5fvf
—activesupport (RubyGems)2.3.0 to before 2.3.42.3.4Patch availableGHSA-8qrh-h9m2-5fvf
  • — Vendor— Affected all versions Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
  • actionpack (RubyGems) Vendor— Affected 2.0.0 to before 2.2.3 Fixed in 2.2.3 Patch available GHSA-8qrh-h9m2-5fvf
  • actionpack (RubyGems) Vendor— Affected 2.3.0 to before 2.3.4 Fixed in 2.3.4 Patch available GHSA-8qrh-h9m2-5fvf
  • activesupport (RubyGems) Vendor— Affected 2.0.0 to before 2.2.3 Fixed in 2.2.3 Patch available GHSA-8qrh-h9m2-5fvf
  • activesupport (RubyGems) Vendor— Affected 2.3.0 to before 2.3.4 Fixed in 2.3.4 Patch available GHSA-8qrh-h9m2-5fvf

CPE configurations NVD · 14

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*2.0.0VulnerableRails
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.0.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*2.0.0 rc1VulnerableRails
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.0.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*2.0.0 rc2VulnerableRails
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*2.0.1VulnerableRails
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*2.0.2VulnerableRails
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*2.0.4VulnerableRails
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*2.1.0VulnerableRails
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*2.1.1VulnerableRails
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*2.1.2VulnerableRails
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*2.2.0VulnerableRails
  • cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 2.0.0 Vulnerable ·Rails
  • cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.0.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 2.0.0 rc1 Vulnerable ·Rails
  • cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.0.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 2.0.0 rc2 Vulnerable ·Rails
  • cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 2.0.1 Vulnerable ·Rails
  • cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 2.0.2 Vulnerable ·Rails
  • cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 2.0.4 Vulnerable ·Rails
  • cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 2.1.0 Vulnerable ·Rails
  • cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 2.1.1 Vulnerable ·Rails
  • cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 2.1.2 Vulnerable ·Rails
  • cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 2.2.0 Vulnerable ·Rails
Show 4 more CPE
CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*2.2.1VulnerableRails
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*2.2.2VulnerableRails
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*2.3.2VulnerableRails
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*2.3.3VulnerableRails
  • cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 2.2.1 Vulnerable ·Rails
  • cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 2.2.2 Vulnerable ·Rails
  • cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 2.3.2 Vulnerable ·Rails
  • cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 2.3.3 Vulnerable ·Rails

Remediation

  • Fix · GHSA-8qrh-h9m2-5fvf actionpack (RubyGems) Fixed in 2.2.3 Advisory →
  • Fix · GHSA-8qrh-h9m2-5fvf actionpack (RubyGems) Fixed in 2.3.4 Advisory →
  • Fix · GHSA-8qrh-h9m2-5fvf activesupport (RubyGems) Fixed in 2.2.3 Advisory →
  • Fix · GHSA-8qrh-h9m2-5fvf activesupport (RubyGems) Fixed in 2.3.4 Advisory →

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat's page for this CVE →

Not affected: 1 product
  • Red Hat

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2009-3009
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-8qrh-h9m2-5fvf

References

Patch 2

Advisory 5

Other 5

  • TI-2014-00124 Directory traversal vulnerability in actionpack/lib/abstract_controller/base.rb in the… KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2019-03828 Path traversal in Rails https://github.com/rails/rails KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2016-00672 Directory traversal vulnerability in Action View in Ruby on Rails before 3.2.22.1, 4.0.x… KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2019-03830 Command injection in Rails https://github.com/rails/rails CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2020-06581 Code injection in https://github.com/rails/rails CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
  • TI-2013-00091 active_support/core_ext/hash/conversions.rb in Ruby on Rails before 2.3.15, 3.0.x before… CVSS 2.0HIGH 7.5
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