SB2024022643 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Rails

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 3 secuirty vulnerabilities.

1) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-26143)

The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data within the translate method in controllers . A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.

2) Inefficient regular expression complexity (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-26142)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient input validation when processing untrusted input with a regular expressions. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDos) attack.

3) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-26144)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to the Active Storage send a Set-Cookie header along with the user's session cookie when serving blobs. It also sets Cache-Control to public. Such cookie can be cached certain proxies and lead to information disclosure.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References

• https://github.com/rails/rails/releases/tag/v7.0.8.1
• https://github.com/rails/rails/releases/tag/v7.1.3.1
• https://github.com/rails/rails/security/advisories/GHSA-9822-6m93-xqf4
• https://github.com/rails/rails/security/advisories/GHSA-jjhx-jhvp-74wq
• https://github.com/rails/rails/security/advisories/GHSA-8h22-8cf7-hq6g