CVE-2024-53985

NameCVE-2024-53985
Descriptionrails-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 and Nokogiri < 1.15.7, or 1.16.x < 1.16.8. The 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 with both "math" and "style" elements or both both "svg" and "style" elements. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.6.1.
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Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
ruby-rails-html-sanitizer (PTS)bullseye1.3.0-1fixed
bullseye (security)1.3.0-1+deb11u1fixed
sid, trixie, bookworm1.4.4-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
ruby-rails-html-sanitizersource(unstable)(not affected)

Notes

- ruby-rails-html-sanitizer <not-affected> (Only affects 1.6.0)
https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/security/advisories/GHSA-w8gc-x259-rc7x
https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/commit/b0220b8850d52199a15f83c472d175a4122dd7b1 (v1.6.1)
https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/commit/cd18b0ef00aad1d4a9e1c5d860cd23f80f63c505 (v1.6.1)

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