| Name | CVE-2024-53986 |
| 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" and "style" elements are both explicitly allowed. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.6.1. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| ruby-rails-html-sanitizer (PTS) | bullseye | 1.3.0-1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 1.3.0-1+deb11u1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie, bookworm | 1.4.4-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
- ruby-rails-html-sanitizer <not-affected> (Only affects 1.6.0)
https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/security/advisories/GHSA-638j-pmjw-jq48
https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/commit/f02ffbb8465e73920b6de0da940f5530f855965e (v1.6.1)