GHSA-pj73-v5mw-pm9j

Possible XSS Security Vulnerability in SafeBuffer#bytesplice

At a glance

Published
Updated
CVE
CVE-2023-28120
CVSS_V3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Description

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.

Affected packages

PackageVersions
RubyGems · activesupportintroduced 7.0.0, fixed 7.0.4.3
RubyGems · activesupportintroduced 0, fixed 6.1.7.3

References

Sources

SourceLicence
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