Package Instance

Actionpack Open Redirect Vulnerability
The Host Authorization middleware in Action Pack before 6.1.2.1, 6.0.3.5 suffers from an open redirect vulnerability. Specially crafted `Host` headers in combination with certain "allowed host" formats can cause the Host Authorization middleware in Action Pack to redirect users to a malicious website.

rails-ujs vulnerable to DOM Based Cross-site Scripting contenteditable HTML Elements
NOTE: rails-ujs is part of Rails/actionview since 5.1.0.

There is a potential DOM based cross-site scripting issue in rails-ujs
which leverages the Clipboard API to target HTML elements that are
assigned the contenteditable attribute. This has the potential to
occur when pasting malicious HTML content from the clipboard that
includes a data-method, data-remote or data-disable-with attribute.

This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2023-23913.

Not affected: < 5.1.0
Versions Affected: >= 5.1.0
Fixed Versions: 6.1.7.3, 7.0.4.3

Impact
If the specified malicious HTML clipboard content is provided to a
contenteditable element, this could result in the arbitrary execution
of javascript on the origin in question.

Releases
The FIXED releases are available at the normal locations.

Workarounds
We recommend that all users upgrade to one of the FIXED versions.
In the meantime, users can attempt to mitigate this vulnerability
by removing the contenteditable attribute from elements in pages
that rails-ujs will interact with.

Patches
To aid users who aren’t able to upgrade immediately we have provided
patches for the two supported release series. They are in git-am
format and consist of a single changeset.

* rails-ujs-data-method-contenteditable-6-1.patch - Patch for 6.1 series
* rails-ujs-data-method-contenteditable-7-0.patch - Patch for 7.0 series

Please note that only the 7.0.Z and 6.1.Z series are
supported at present, and 6.0.Z for severe vulnerabilities.

Users of earlier unsupported releases are advised to upgrade as
soon as possible as we cannot guarantee the continued availability
of security fixes for unsupported releases.

Credits
We would like to thank ryotak 15 for reporting this!

* rails-ujs-data-method-contenteditable-6-1.patch (8.5 KB)
* rails-ujs-data-method-contenteditable-7-0.patch (8.5 KB)
* rails-ujs-data-method-contenteditable-main.patch (8.9 KB)

URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect')
A possible open redirect vulnerability in the Host Authorization middleware in Action Pack >= 6.0.0 that could allow attackers to redirect users to a malicious website.

Possible XSS Security Vulnerability in SafeBuffer#bytesplice
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 does 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.

URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect')
A open redirect vulnerability exists in Action Pack >= 6.0.0 that could allow an attacker to craft a "X-Forwarded-Host" headers in combination with certain "allowed host" formats can cause the Host Authorization middleware in Action Pack to redirect users to a malicious website.

XSS in Action View
There is a potential Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Action View's translation helpers. Views that allow the user to control the default (not found) value of the `t` and `translate` helpers could be susceptible to XSS attacks.

### Impact

When an HTML-unsafe string is passed as the default for a missing translation key [named `html` or ending in `_html`](https://guides.rubyonrails.org/i18n.html#using-safe-html-translations), the default string is incorrectly marked as HTML-safe and not escaped. Vulnerable code may look like the following examples:

```erb
<%# The welcome_html translation is not defined for the current locale: %>
<%= t("welcome_html", default: untrusted_user_controlled_string) %>

<%# Neither the title.html translation nor the missing.html translation is defined for the current locale: %>
<%= t("title.html", default: [:"missing.html", untrusted_user_controlled_string]) %>
```

### Patches

Patched Rails versions, 6.0.3.3 and 5.2.4.4, are available from the normal locations.

The patches have also been applied to the `master`, `6-0-stable`, and `5-2-stable` branches on GitHub. If you track any of these branches, you should update to the latest.

To aid users who aren’t able to upgrade immediately, we’ve provided patches for the two supported release series. They are in git-am format and consist of a single changeset.

* [5-2-translate-helper-xss.patch](https://gist.github.com/georgeclaghorn/a466e103922ee81f24c32c9034089442#file-5-2-translate-helper-xss-patch) — patch for the 5.2 release series
* [6-0-translate-helper-xss.patch](https://gist.github.com/georgeclaghorn/a466e103922ee81f24c32c9034089442#file-6-0-translate-helper-xss-patch) — patch for the 6.0 release series

Please note that only the 5.2 and 6.0 release series are currently supported. Users of earlier, unsupported releases are advised to update as soon as possible, as we cannot provide security fixes for unsupported releases.

### Workarounds

Impacted users who can’t upgrade to a patched Rails version can avoid this issue by manually escaping default translations with the `html_escape` helper (aliased as `h`):

```erb
<%= t("welcome_html", default: h(untrusted_user_controlled_string)) %>
```

Possible ReDoS vulnerability in plain_text_for_blockquote_node in Action Text
There is a possible ReDoS vulnerability in the plain_text_for_blockquote_node helper in Action Text. This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2024-47888.

Impact
------

Carefully crafted text can cause the plain_text_for_blockquote_node helper to take an unexpected amount of time, possibly resulting in a DoS vulnerability. All users running an affected release should either upgrade or apply the relevant patch immediately.

Ruby 3.2 has mitigations for this problem, so Rails applications using Ruby 3.2 or newer are unaffected. Rails 8.0.0.beta1 depends on Ruby 3.2 or greater so is unaffected.


Releases
--------
The fixed releases are available at the normal locations.

Workarounds
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Users can avoid calling `plain_text_for_blockquote_node` or upgrade to Ruby 3.2

Credits
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Thanks to [ooooooo_q](https://hackerone.com/ooooooo_q) for the report!