CVE-2024-53989

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Published 2024-12-02 · Modified 2024-12-03

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

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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 for the the "noscript" element. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.6.1.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	bookworm	fixed	`0`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`0`
debian	forky	fixed	`0`
debian	sid	fixed	`0`
debian	trixie	fixed	`0`

Package impact

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable	Fixed
RubyGems	rails-html-sanitizer	`!< 1.6.0\|\|<>= 1.6.1`	`>= 1.6.1`
RubyGems	rails-html-sanitizer	`>=1.6.0,<1.6.1`	`1.6.1`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.