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Package details: pkg:gem/loofah@2.25.1
purl pkg:gem/loofah@2.25.1
Next non-vulnerable version None.
Latest non-vulnerable version None.
Risk 1.4
Vulnerabilities affecting this package (1)
Vulnerability Summary Fixed by
VCID-amsh-qpt1-9qb7
Aliases:
GHSA-46fp-8f5p-pf2m
Improper detection of disallowed URIs by Loofah `allowed_uri?` ## Summary `Loofah::HTML5::Scrub.allowed_uri?` does not correctly reject `javascript:` URIs when the scheme is split by HTML entity-encoded control characters such as `
` (carriage return), `
` (line feed), or `	` (tab). ## Details The `allowed_uri?` method strips literal control characters before decoding HTML entities. Payloads like `java
script:alert(1)` survive the control character strip, then `
` is decoded to a carriage return, producing `java\rscript:alert(1)`. Note that the Loofah sanitizer's default `sanitize()` path is **not affected** because Nokogiri decodes HTML entities during parsing before Loofah evaluates the URI protocol. This issue only affects direct callers of the `allowed_uri?` string-level helper when passing HTML-encoded strings. ## Impact Applications that call `Loofah::HTML5::Scrub.allowed_uri?` to validate user-controlled URLs and then render approved URLs into `href` or other browser-interpreted URI attributes may be vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS). This only affects Loofah `2.25.0`. ## Mitigation Upgrade to Loofah >= `2.25.1`. ## Credit Responsibly reported by HackOne user `@smlee`. There are no reported fixed by versions.
Vulnerabilities fixed by this package (2)
Vulnerability Summary Aliases
VCID-amsh-qpt1-9qb7 Improper detection of disallowed URIs by Loofah `allowed_uri?` ## Summary `Loofah::HTML5::Scrub.allowed_uri?` does not correctly reject `javascript:` URIs when the scheme is split by HTML entity-encoded control characters such as `
` (carriage return), `
` (line feed), or `	` (tab). ## Details The `allowed_uri?` method strips literal control characters before decoding HTML entities. Payloads like `java
script:alert(1)` survive the control character strip, then `
` is decoded to a carriage return, producing `java\rscript:alert(1)`. Note that the Loofah sanitizer's default `sanitize()` path is **not affected** because Nokogiri decodes HTML entities during parsing before Loofah evaluates the URI protocol. This issue only affects direct callers of the `allowed_uri?` string-level helper when passing HTML-encoded strings. ## Impact Applications that call `Loofah::HTML5::Scrub.allowed_uri?` to validate user-controlled URLs and then render approved URLs into `href` or other browser-interpreted URI attributes may be vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS). This only affects Loofah `2.25.0`. ## Mitigation Upgrade to Loofah >= `2.25.1`. ## Credit Responsibly reported by HackOne user `@smlee`. GHSA-46fp-8f5p-pf2m
VCID-qz71-ek2u-8ybh Loofah has improper detection of disallowed URIs via `allowed_uri?` ## Summary `Loofah::HTML5::Scrub.allowed_uri?` does not correctly reject `javascript:` URIs when the scheme is split by HTML entity-encoded control characters such as `
` (carriage return), `
` (line feed), or `	` (tab). ## Details The `allowed_uri?` method strips literal control characters before decoding HTML entities. Payloads like `java
script:alert(1)` survive the control character strip, then `
` is decoded to a carriage return, producing `java\rscript:alert(1)`. Note that the Loofah sanitizer's default `sanitize()` path is **not affected** because Nokogiri decodes HTML entities during parsing before Loofah evaluates the URI protocol. This issue only affects direct callers of the `allowed_uri?` string-level helper when passing HTML-encoded strings. ## Impact Applications that call `Loofah::HTML5::Scrub.allowed_uri?` to validate user-controlled URLs and then render approved URLs into `href` or other browser-interpreted URI attributes may be vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS). This only affects Loofah `2.25.0`. ## Mitigation Upgrade to Loofah >= `2.25.1`. ## Credit Responsibly reported by HackOne user @smlee. GHSA-2j22-pr5w-6gq8

Date Actor Action Vulnerability Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-04-18T04:14:58.154463+00:00 GitLab Importer Fixing VCID-amsh-qpt1-9qb7 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/gem/loofah/GHSA-46fp-8f5p-pf2m.yml 38.4.0
2026-04-16T17:41:47.588420+00:00 Ruby Importer Affected by VCID-amsh-qpt1-9qb7 https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/loofah/GHSA-46fp-8f5p-pf2m.yml 38.4.0
2026-04-16T17:41:47.582401+00:00 Ruby Importer Fixing VCID-amsh-qpt1-9qb7 https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/loofah/GHSA-46fp-8f5p-pf2m.yml 38.4.0
2026-04-11T21:39:55.416890+00:00 Ruby Importer Affected by VCID-amsh-qpt1-9qb7 https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/loofah/GHSA-46fp-8f5p-pf2m.yml 38.3.0
2026-04-11T21:39:55.402844+00:00 Ruby Importer Fixing VCID-amsh-qpt1-9qb7 https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/loofah/GHSA-46fp-8f5p-pf2m.yml 38.3.0
2026-04-02T19:37:13.528719+00:00 Ruby Importer Affected by VCID-amsh-qpt1-9qb7 https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/loofah/GHSA-46fp-8f5p-pf2m.yml 38.1.0
2026-04-02T19:37:13.523185+00:00 Ruby Importer Fixing VCID-amsh-qpt1-9qb7 https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/loofah/GHSA-46fp-8f5p-pf2m.yml 38.1.0
2026-04-02T17:01:29.536233+00:00 GHSA Importer Fixing VCID-qz71-ek2u-8ybh https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2j22-pr5w-6gq8 38.1.0
2026-04-02T17:01:13.651548+00:00 GHSA Importer Fixing VCID-amsh-qpt1-9qb7 https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-46fp-8f5p-pf2m 38.1.0
2026-04-01T15:55:04.588986+00:00 Ruby Importer Affected by VCID-amsh-qpt1-9qb7 https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/loofah/GHSA-46fp-8f5p-pf2m.yml 38.0.0
2026-04-01T15:55:04.575157+00:00 Ruby Importer Fixing VCID-amsh-qpt1-9qb7 https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/loofah/GHSA-46fp-8f5p-pf2m.yml 38.0.0
2026-04-01T12:53:18.042604+00:00 GithubOSV Importer Fixing VCID-qz71-ek2u-8ybh https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2026/03/GHSA-2j22-pr5w-6gq8/GHSA-2j22-pr5w-6gq8.json 38.0.0
2026-04-01T12:53:13.645757+00:00 GithubOSV Importer Fixing VCID-amsh-qpt1-9qb7 https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2026/03/GHSA-46fp-8f5p-pf2m/GHSA-46fp-8f5p-pf2m.json 38.0.0