CVE-2024-53986 (Medium) detected in rails-html-sanitizer-1.6.0.gem

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CVE-2024-53986 - Medium Severity Vulnerability

Vulnerable Library - rails-html-sanitizer-1.6.0.gem

HTML sanitization for Rails applications

Library home page: https://rubygems.org/gems/rails-html-sanitizer-1.6.0.gem

Path to dependency file: /Gemfile.lock

Path to vulnerable library: /home/wss-scanner/.gem/ruby/3.2.0/cache/rails-html-sanitizer-1.6.0.gem

Dependency Hierarchy:

• rspec-rails-5.1.2.gem (Root Library)
  • railties-7.2.2.gem
    • actionpack-7.2.2.gem
      • ❌ rails-html-sanitizer-1.6.0.gem (Vulnerable Library)

Found in base branch: master

Vulnerability Details

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" and "style" elements are both explicitly allowed. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.6.1.

Publish Date: 2024-12-02

URL: CVE-2024-53986

CVSS 3 Score Details (4.7)

Base Score Metrics:

• Exploitability Metrics:
  • Attack Vector: Network
  • Attack Complexity: High
  • Privileges Required: None
  • User Interaction: Required
  • Scope: Changed
• Impact Metrics:
  • Confidentiality Impact: Low
  • Integrity Impact: Low
  • Availability Impact: None

For more information on CVSS3 Scores, click here.

Suggested Fix

Type: Upgrade version

Origin: GHSA-638j-pmjw-jq48

Release Date: 2024-12-02

Fix Resolution: rails-html-sanitizer - 1.6.1

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