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CVE-2023-28120 Moderate

CVE-2023-28120

There is a vulnerability in ActiveSupport if the new bytesplice method is called on a SafeBuffer with untrusted user input.

Exploit probability 0.9%
Published January 9, 2025
Required by Not available
Last source change August 12, 2026

02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE

Affected packages

Unknown Unknown

2 explicit affected versions

RubyGems activesupport

422 explicit affected versions

03 / CONNECTIONS

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04 / EVIDENCE

Source records

Open Source Vulnerabilities CVE-2023-28120

There is a vulnerability in ActiveSupport if the new bytesplice method is called on a SafeBuffer with untrusted user input.

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Open Source Vulnerabilities GHSA-pj73-v5mw-pm9j

There is a vulnerability in ActiveSupport if the new bytesplice method is called on a SafeBuffer with untrusted user input. This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2023-28120. Versions Affected: All. Not affected: None Fixed Versions: 7.0.4.3, 6.1.7.3 # Impact ActiveSupport uses the SafeBuffer string subclass to tag strings as html_safe after they have been sanitized. When these strings are mutated, the tag is should be removed to mark them as no longer being html_safe. Ruby 3.2 introduced a new bytesplice method which ActiveSupport did not yet understand to be a mutation. Users on older versions of Ruby are likely unaffected. All users running an affected release and using bytesplice should either upgrade or use one of the workarounds immediately. # Workarounds Avoid calling bytesplice on a SafeBuffer (html_safe) string with untrusted user input.

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05 / REFERENCES

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