Advisories for Gem/Rails-Html-Sanitizer package

2022

Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

rails-html-sanitizer is responsible for sanitizing HTML fragments in Rails applications. Certain configurations of rails-html-sanitizer < 1.4.4 use an inefficient regular expression that is susceptible to excessive backtracking when attempting to sanitize certain SVG attributes. This may lead to a denial of service through CPU resource consumption. This issue has been patched in version 1.4.4.

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

rails-html-sanitizer is responsible for sanitizing HTML fragments in Rails applications. Prior to version 1.4.4, there is a possible XSS vulnerability with certain configurations of Rails::Html::Sanitizer due to an incomplete fix of CVE-2022-32209. Rails::Html::Sanitizer may allow an attacker to inject content if the application developer has overridden the sanitizer's allowed tags to allow both "select" and "style" elements. Code is only impacted if allowed tags are being overridden. This issue is …

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

rails-html-sanitizer is responsible for sanitizing HTML fragments in Rails applications. Prior to version 1.4.4, a possible XSS vulnerability with certain configurations of Rails::Html::Sanitizer may allow an attacker to inject content if the application developer has overridden the sanitizer's allowed tags in either of the following ways: allow both "math" and "style" elements, or allow both "svg" and "style" elements. Code is only impacted if allowed tags are being overridden. . …

Duplicate of ./gem/rails-html-sanitizer/CVE-2022-23518.yml

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#. References CWE - CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') (4.9) SVG MIME Type (image/svg+xml) is misleading to developers · Issue #266 · w3c/svgwg https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/issues/135 https://hackerone.com/reports/1694173 Credit This …

Duplicate of ./gem/rails-html-sanitizer/CVE-2022-23517.yml

Summary Certain configurations of rails-html-sanitizer < 1.4.4 use an inefficient regular expression that is susceptible to excessive backtracking when attempting to sanitize certain SVG attributes. This may lead to a denial of service through CPU resource consumption. Mitigation Upgrade to rails-html-sanitizer >= 1.4.4. Severity The maintainers have evaluated this as [High Severity 7.5 (CVSS3.1)](https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/3.1#. References CWE - CWE-1333: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity (4.9) https://hackerone.com/reports/1684163 Credit This vulnerability was responsibly reported …

2018

XSS vulnerability

The gem allows attributes that are not specified in the allowlist to be present in sanitized output when input with specially-crafted HTML fragments, and these attributes can lead to an XSS attack on target applications. This issue is similar to CVE-2018-8048 in Loofah.

2016

XSS vulnerability in strip_tags

Due to the way that Rails::Html::FullSanitizer is implemented, if an attacker passes an already escaped HTML entity to the input of Action View's strip_tags these entities will be unescaped what may cause a XSS attack if used in combination with raw or html_safe.