GHSA-242p-4v39-2v8g

Source

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-242p-4v39-2v8g

Import Source

https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2024/03/GHSA-242p-4v39-2v8g/GHSA-242p-4v39-2v8g.json

Aliases

• CVE-2024-28199

Published

2024-03-12T15:39:46Z

Modified

2024-03-14T21:50:37.434787Z

Details

There is a potential cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability that can be exploited via maliciously crafted user data. This was due to improper case-sensitivity in the code that was meant to prevent these attacks.

Impact

If you render an <a> tag with an href attribute set to a user-provided link, that link could potentially execute JavaScript when clicked by another user.

a(href: user_profile) { "Profile" }

If you splat user-provided attributes when rendering any HTML or SVG tag, malicious event attributes could be included in the output, executing JavaScript when the events are triggered by another user.

h1(**JSON.parse(user_attributes))

Patches

Patches are available on RubyGems for all 1.x minor versions. The patched versions are:

• 1.9.1
• 1.8.2
• 1.7.1
• 1.6.2
• 1.5.2
• 1.4.1
• 1.3.3
• 1.2.2
• 1.1.1
• 1.0.1

If you are on main, it has been patched since aa50c60

Workarounds

Configuring a Content Security Policy that does not allow unsafe-inline would effectively prevent this vulnerability from being exploited.

References

In addition to upgrading to a patched version of Phlex, we strongly recommend configuring a Content Security Policy header that does not allow unsafe-inline. Here’s how you can configure a Content Security Policy header in Rails. https://guides.rubyonrails.org/security.html#content-security-policy-header

References

• https://github.com/phlex-ruby/phlex/security/advisories/GHSA-242p-4v39-2v8g
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-28199
• https://github.com/phlex-ruby/phlex/commit/aa50c604cdee1d0ce7ef068a4c66cbd5d43f96a1
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Content-Security-Policy
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Content-Security-Policy#unsafe-inline
• https://github.com/phlex-ruby/phlex
• https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/phlex/CVE-2024-28199.yml