Cross-site scripting in Ruby on Rails - CVE-2024-32464
Published: July 2, 2024
Vulnerability identifier: #VU93641
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 2.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-32464
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data in ActionText::Attachable::ContentAttachment when parsing attachments. A remote attacker can inject and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.
Affected software
Ruby on Rails
How to mitigate CVE-2024-32464
Install updates from vendor's website.
Ruby on Rails - update to 7.1.3.4