class Dawn::Kb::CVE_2009_4214

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# File lib/dawn/kb/cve_2009_4214.rb, line 7
                      def initialize
message = "Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the strip_tags function in Ruby on Rails before 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."
super({
  :name=>"CVE-2009-4214",
  :cvss=>"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N",
  :release_date => Date.new(2009, 12, 7),
  :cwe=>"79",
  :owasp=>"A3", 
  :applies=>["rails"],
  :kind=>Dawn::KnowledgeBase::DEPENDENCY_CHECK,
  :message=>message,
  :mitigation=>"Please upgrade rails version at least to 2.3.5 or higher. As a general rule, using the latest stable rails version is recommended.",
  :aux_links=>["http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/browse_thread/thread/4d4f71f2aef4c0ab?pli=1"]
})

self.safe_dependencies = [{:name=>"rails", :version=>['2.3.5', '2.2.999', '2.1.999', '1.999.999', '0.999.999']}]

                      end