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GHSA-pj73-v5mw-pm9j

Possible XSS Security Vulnerability in SafeBuffer#bytesplice

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2023-28120

Packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
RubyGems activesupport >= 7.0.0, < 7.0.4.3 7.0.4.3
RubyGems activesupport < 6.1.7.3 6.1.7.3

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

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.

References

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