rails-html-sanitizer is responsible for sanitizing HTML fragments in Rails applications. Before 1.7.2, the HTML4 and HTML5 variants of Rails::HTML::SafeListSanitizer reuse one Rails::HTML::PermitScrubber across calls and mutate its tags and attributes without synchronization. In a multithreaded process, concurrent sanitize calls using different tags: or attributes: options can interleave and cause one call to use the other call's allowlist. If a permissive call admits a script element or event-handler attribute, output expected to be sanitized under a stricter policy can retain it and cause cross-site scripting when rendered. Applications that are single-threaded, use one identical allowlist everywhere, or provide a separate scrubber: are not affected. This issue is fixed in version 1.7.2.

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Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-h7wh-q2qr-458c rails-html-sanitizer: Possible XSS via shared scrubber state in concurrent calls
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Description rails-html-sanitizer is responsible for sanitizing HTML fragments in Rails applications. Before 1.7.2, the HTML4 and HTML5 variants of Rails::HTML::SafeListSanitizer reuse one Rails::HTML::PermitScrubber across calls and mutate its tags and attributes without synchronization. In a multithreaded process, concurrent sanitize calls using different tags: or attributes: options can interleave and cause one call to use the other call's allowlist. If a permissive call admits a script element or event-handler attribute, output expected to be sanitized under a stricter policy can retain it and cause cross-site scripting when rendered. Applications that are single-threaded, use one identical allowlist everywhere, or provide a separate scrubber: are not affected. This issue is fixed in version 1.7.2.
Title rails-html-sanitizer: Possible XSS via shared scrubber state in concurrent calls
Weaknesses CWE-362
CWE-79
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{'score': 4.7, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-11-13T17:17:47.954Z

Reserved: 2026-11-12T21:24:51.129Z

Link: CVE-2026-128069

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Status : Received

Published: 2026-11-13T18:17:34.757

Modified: 2026-11-13T18:17:34.757

Link: CVE-2026-128069

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Updated: 2026-11-14T09:00:08Z

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