SB2024120545 - Multiple vulnerabilities in rails-html-sanitizer
Published: December 5, 2024
Breakdown by Severity
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- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 5 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-53985)
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. 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) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-53987)
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. 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.
3) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-53989)
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. 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.
4) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-53988)
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. 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.
5) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-53986)
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. 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.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/commit/b0220b8850d52199a15f83c472d175a4122dd7b1
- https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/commit/cd18b0ef00aad1d4a9e1c5d860cd23f80f63c505
- https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/security/advisories/GHSA-w8gc-x259-rc7x
- https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/commit/f02ffbb8465e73920b6de0da940f5530f855965e
- https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/security/advisories/GHSA-2x5m-9ch4-qgrr
- https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/commit/16251735e36ebdc302e2f90f2a39cad56879414f
- https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/security/advisories/GHSA-rxv5-gxqc-xx8g
- https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/commit/a0a3e8b76b696446ffc6bffcff3bc7b7c6393c72
- https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/security/advisories/GHSA-cfjx-w229-hgx5
- https://github.com/rails/rails-html-sanitizer/security/advisories/GHSA-638j-pmjw-jq48