CVE-2024-53988 — Cross-site Scripting in Rails Rails-html-sanitizer

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting6 documents5 sources
Severity
2.3LOWNVD
EPSS
1.7%
top 17.73%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
Rails Rails-html-sanitizerRubyonrails Rails Html SanitizersDebian Ruby-rails-html-sanitizer
Timeline
PublishedDec 2

Description

rails-html-sanitizer is responsible for sanitizing HTML fragments in Rails applications. There is a possible XSS vulnerability with certain configurations of Rails::HTML::Sanitizer 1.6.0 when used with Rails >= 7.1.0. A possible XSS vulnerability with certain configurations of Rails::HTML::Sanitizer may allow an attacker to inject content if HTML5 sanitization is enabled and the application developer has overridden the sanitizer's allowed tags where the "math", "mtext", "table", and "style" elem…

CVSS vector

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N

Affected Packages4 packages

▶RubyGemsrails/rails-html-sanitizer1.6.0 — 1.6.1
▶CVEListV5rails/rails-html-sanitizer>= 1.6.0, < 1.6.1

Patches

Patch: github.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
OSV
CVE-2024-53988: rails-html-sanitizer is responsible for sanitizing HTML fragments in Rails applications↗2024-12-02
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GHSA
rails-html-sanitizer has XSS vulnerability with certain configurations↗2024-12-02
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OSV
rails-html-sanitizer has XSS vulnerability with certain configurations↗2024-12-02
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
rails-html-sanitizer: Possible XSS vulnerability with certain configurations of rails-html-sanitizer 1.6.0↗2024-12-02
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Debian
CVE-2024-53988: ruby-rails-html-sanitizer - rails-html-sanitizer is responsible for sanitizing HTML fragments in Rails appli...↗2024
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