GHSA-g7xq-xv8c-h98c

Source

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-g7xq-xv8c-h98c

Import Source

https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2024/04/GHSA-g7xq-xv8c-h98c/GHSA-g7xq-xv8c-h98c.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-g7xq-xv8c-h98c

Aliases

CVE-2024-32463

Published

2024-04-17T00:20:23Z

Modified

2024-04-19T21:46:56.490872Z

Severity

7.1 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N CVSS Calculator

Summary

Cross-site Scripting (XSS) possible due to improper sanitisation of `href` attributes on `<a>` tags

Details

Summary

There is a potential cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability that can be exploited via maliciously crafted user data.

Our filter to detect and prevent the use of the javascript: URL scheme in the href attribute of an <a> tag could be bypassed with tab \t or newline \n characters between the characters of the protocol, e.g. java\tscript:.

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" }

Mitigation

The best way to mitigate this vulnerability is to update to one of the following versions:

Workarounds

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

Database specific

{
    "nvd_published_at": "2024-04-17T16:15:09Z",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-79",
        "CWE-87"
    ],
    "severity": "HIGH",
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2024-04-17T00:20:23Z"
}

References

Affected packages

RubyGems / phlex

Package

Name: phlex
Purl: pkg:gem/phlex

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

1.10.0

Fixed

1.10.1

Affected versions

1.*

1.10.0

RubyGems / phlex

Package

Name: phlex
Purl: pkg:gem/phlex

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

1.9.0

Fixed

1.9.2

Affected versions

1.*

1.9.0

1.9.1

RubyGems / phlex

Package

Name: phlex
Purl: pkg:gem/phlex

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

1.8.0

Fixed

1.8.3

Affected versions

1.*

1.8.0

1.8.1

1.8.2

RubyGems / phlex

Package

Name: phlex
Purl: pkg:gem/phlex

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

1.7.0

Fixed

1.7.2

Affected versions

1.*

1.7.0

1.7.1

RubyGems / phlex

Package

Name: phlex
Purl: pkg:gem/phlex

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

1.6.0

Fixed

1.6.3

Affected versions

1.*

1.6.0

1.6.1

1.6.2

RubyGems / phlex

Package

Name: phlex
Purl: pkg:gem/phlex

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

1.5.0

Fixed

1.5.3

Affected versions

1.*

1.5.0

1.5.1

1.5.2

RubyGems / phlex

Package

Name: phlex
Purl: pkg:gem/phlex

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

1.4.2

Affected versions

0.*

0.1.0

0.2.0

0.2.1

0.2.2

0.3.0

0.3.1

0.3.2

0.4.0

0.5.0

0.5.1

0.5.2

0.5.3

1.*

1.0.0.rc1

1.0.0.rc2

1.0.0

1.0.1

1.1.0

1.1.1

1.2.0

1.2.1

1.2.2

1.3.0

1.3.1

1.3.2

1.3.3

1.4.0

1.4.1