Improper neutralization of data URIs allows XSS in rails-html-sanitizer
rails-html-sanitizer is responsible for sanitizing HTML fragments in Rails applications. Versions >= 1.0.3, < 1.4.4 are vulnerable to cross-site scripting via data URIs when used in combination with Loofah >= 2.1.0. This issue is patched in version 1.4.4.
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
9 explicit affected versions
9 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
## Summary rails-html-sanitizer `>= 1.0.3, < 1.4.4` is vulnerable to cross-site scripting via data URIs when used in combination with Loofah `>= 2.1.0`. ## Mitigation Upgrade to rails-html-sanitizer `>= 1.4.4`. ## Severity The maintainers have evaluated this as [Medium Severity 6.1](https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/3.0#CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N). ## References - [CWE - CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') (4.9)](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/79.html) - [SVG MIME Type (image/svg+xml) is misleading to developers · Issue #266 · w3c/svgwg](https://github.com/w3c/svgwg/issues/266) - https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/issues/135 - https://hackerone.com/reports/1694173 ## Credit This vulnerability was independently reported by Maciej Piechota (@haqpl) and Mrinmoy Das (@goromlagche).
rails-html-sanitizer is responsible for sanitizing HTML fragments in Rails applications. Versions >= 1.0.3, < 1.4.4 are vulnerable to cross-site scripting via data URIs when used in combination with Loofah >= 2.1.0. This issue is patched in version 1.4.4.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer
- https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/issues/135
- https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/security/advisories/GHSA-mcvf-2q2m-x72m
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rails-html-sanitizer/CVE-2022-23518.yml
- https://github.com/w3c/svgwg/issues/266
- https://hackerone.com/reports/1694173
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00012.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/09/msg00045.html
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-23518
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/23xxx/CVE-2022-23518.json