Bug 2330067 (CVE-2024-53988)

Summary: CVE-2024-53988 rails-html-sanitizer: Possible XSS vulnerability with certain configurations of rails-html-sanitizer 1.6.0
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Version: unspecifiedCC: akostadi, amasferr, cbartlet, chazlett, dmayorov, ehelms, ggainey, jlledo, juwatts, kaycoth, mhulan, mkudlej, mmakovy, nmoumoul, pcreech, rchan, smallamp, tjochec, vmugicag
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A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability was found in Rails::HTML::Sanitizer. In certain configurations, this issue 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" elements are allowed and either either "mglyph" or "malignmark" are allowed.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-12-02 22:01:54 UTC
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" elements are allowed and either either "mglyph" or "malignmark" are allowed. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.6.1.