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dep: [security] bump rails-html-sanitizer from 1.4.3 to 1.4.4

Bumps rails-html-sanitizer from 1.4.3 to 1.4.4. This update includes security fixes.

Vulnerabilities fixed

Possible XSS vulnerability with certain configurations of rails-html-sanitizer

Summary

There is a possible XSS vulnerability with certain configurations of Rails::Html::Sanitizer. This is due to an incomplete fix of CVE-2022-32209.

  • Versions affected: ALL
  • Not affected: NONE
  • Fixed versions: 1.4.4

Impact

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 to allow both "select" and "style" elements.

Code is only impacted if allowed tags are being overridden using either of the following two mechanisms:

  1. Using the Rails configuration config.action_view.sanitized_allow_tags=:
# In config/application.rb
config.action_view.sanitized_allowed_tags = ["select", "style"]
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Patched versions: 1.4.4 Affected versions: < 1.4.4

Possible XSS vulnerability with certain configurations of rails-html-sanitizer

Summary

There is a possible XSS vulnerability with certain configurations of Rails::Html::Sanitizer.

  • Versions affected: ALL
  • Not affected: NONE
  • Fixed versions: 1.4.4

Impact

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. Applications may be doing this in four different ways:

  1. using application configuration:

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Patched versions: 1.4.4 Affected versions: < 1.4.4

Improper neutralization of data URIs may allow XSS in rails-html-sanitizer

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.

References

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Patched versions: 1.4.4 Affected versions: >= 1.0.3, < 1.4.4

Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity in rails-html-sanitizer

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).

References

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Patched versions: 1.4.4 Affected versions: < 1.4.4

Release notes

Sourced from rails-html-sanitizer's releases.

1.4.4 / 2022-12-13

  • Address inefficient regular expression complexity with certain configurations of Rails::Html::Sanitizer.

    Fixes CVE-2022-23517. See GHSA-5x79-w82f-gw8w for more information.

    Mike Dalessio

  • Address improper sanitization of data URIs.

    Fixes CVE-2022-23518 and #135. See GHSA-mcvf-2q2m-x72m for more information.

    Mike Dalessio

  • Address possible XSS vulnerability with certain configurations of Rails::Html::Sanitizer.

    Fixes CVE-2022-23520. See GHSA-rrfc-7g8p-99q8 for more information.

    Mike Dalessio

  • Address possible XSS vulnerability with certain configurations of Rails::Html::Sanitizer.

    Fixes CVE-2022-23519. See GHSA-9h9g-93gc-623h for more information.

    Mike Dalessio

Changelog

Sourced from rails-html-sanitizer's changelog.

1.4.4 / 2022-12-13

  • Address inefficient regular expression complexity with certain configurations of Rails::Html::Sanitizer.

    Fixes CVE-2022-23517. See GHSA-5x79-w82f-gw8w for more information.

    Mike Dalessio

  • Address improper sanitization of data URIs.

    Fixes CVE-2022-23518 and #135. See GHSA-mcvf-2q2m-x72m for more information.

    Mike Dalessio

  • Address possible XSS vulnerability with certain configurations of Rails::Html::Sanitizer.

    Fixes CVE-2022-23520. See GHSA-rrfc-7g8p-99q8 for more information.

    Mike Dalessio

  • Address possible XSS vulnerability with certain configurations of Rails::Html::Sanitizer.

    Fixes CVE-2022-23519. See GHSA-9h9g-93gc-623h for more information.

    Mike Dalessio

Commits
  • fd63dea version bump to v1.4.4
  • 48ae90a dep: bump dependency on loofah
  • 0713caf fix: escape CDATA nodes using Loofah's escaping methods
  • e6d52d3 revert 45a5c10
  • d1223a2 fix: use Loofah's scrub_uri_attribute method
  • f0e3347 fix: replace slow regex attribute check with Loofah method
  • df03f2f ci: pin system lib test to 20.04
  • 3e2a0f3 Merge pull request #145 from rails/flavorjones-get-14x-green
  • 11752a6 tests: handle libxml 2.10.0 incorrectly-opened comment parsing
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rspec: test report for 733d40d8

+------------------------------------------------------------------+
|                        behaviors summary                         |
+-------------+--------+--------+---------+-------+-------+--------+
|             | passed | failed | skipped | flaky | total | result |
+-------------+--------+--------+---------+-------+-------+--------+
| services    | 181    | 0      | 0       | 0     | 181   | ✅     |
| jobs        | 14     | 0      | 0       | 0     | 14    | ✅     |
| controllers | 25     | 0      | 0       | 0     | 25    | ✅     |
| models      | 4      | 0      | 0       | 0     | 4     | ✅     |
| tasks       | 9      | 0      | 0       | 0     | 9     | ✅     |
| system      | 10     | 0      | 0       | 0     | 10    | ✅     |
+-------------+--------+--------+---------+-------+-------+--------+
| Total       | 243    | 0      | 0       | 0     | 243   | ✅     |
+-------------+--------+--------+---------+-------+-------+--------+
Edited by George Koltsov

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